2012 Perseid meteor shower August 12, 2012 from George and David's on Cavedale Road above the Sonoma Valley. NOTiCE after the largest and brightest meteor what appears to be a puff of smoke is released behind the tail... what this actually is is the vaporized meteor material - what the tiny rock that hit the atmosphere turned into when it got so hot that it just shredded apart - which was in a straight line, just like the light trail the burning meteor created until the winds of the upper atmosphere slowly blow it into a warped 's' shaped pattern and dissapate it into nothing. It appears as a puff of smoke because I animated the hundreds of images at 24 frames per second, so what in real life took 5 or six minutes is sped up to happen in a split second. Apparently the light from the towns of the Sonoma Valley are illuminating the disintegrating vapor trail. 30 sec exposures with a Canon 7D, intervalometer firing the shutter every 40 seconds. Shot 650 frames from 11pm to 4:30am, 14 contained meteor trails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9g8nY5uUvA&hl=en
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