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# 353 | Perseid Meteors

If you weren't clouded out, chances are you saw many Perseid meteors earlier this week.

Pierre Martin of Ottawa, Ontario, observing and photographing from near Bon Echo Provincial Park, reports that once the Moon had set that the meteor shower was excellent.

Pierre took continuous 2-minute exposures from 1:00 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. and then combined them into one single photo to show all the meteors that were captured by his Canon 30D digital camera.

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