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| A stack compilation of 30x20sec lights taken between 12:30 am and 02:30am on the 13th August 2021. Tripod mounted Canon 600d DSLR with a SIGMA 10-20mm lens at F4.5 and f=10mm. Credit Pip Stakkert. |
"The whole Jodrell Plank Team relocated to the cliff top at nearby Pakefield and watched a wonderful show of Perseid and sporadic meteors as they fell over the North Sea. Pip Stakkert made a great effort to capture the magnificence of this year's splendid pyrotechnic display. We were all disappointed by the light pollution from the newly refurbished CEFAS cliff top laboratories and offices. Internal and external lights were on when we arrived and were still blazing away when we left Pakefield at 2;45am. The new LED lighting is very bright across a wide visual spectrum and the external scheme is poorly designed. It is something of a disgrace that a Government building dedicated to protecting the sea and fish stocks has lighting detrimental to the night sky! A number of the meteors in the above image are clearly Perseids but some are not. The 'fireball' shown on the extreme top left of the image was a spectacular sight to the naked eye." - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
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