The ultimate guide to photographing the Perseid's meteor shower. Everything from camera settings to avoiding the dreaded lens fog.
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I was refreshing the weather forecast hoping for some kind of miracle. Metoffice, Brecon Beacons… cloudy. Elan Valley… cloudy. Pembrokeshire? Cloudy. Oh why not, Snowdonia… cloudy.
After only catching a few meteors the night before it looked like Wales was going to miss the peak of the Perseids meteor shower 2016. And what a show it was forecast to be, with astronomers pointing towards an ‘outburst’ – nearly twice the average rates with almost 200 meteors per hour!
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I’ve never felt so simultaneously anxious, excited, frantic, elated, pressured and exhilarated in my entire life! Adell had hoofed it up Corn Du (873m) meaning she had to wait a long 45 minutes in the cold blistering wind whilst I sludged around marsh land about 2km west of her up on Y Gyrn. I was trying to get myself into the precise position to capture the moon rising behind her, with an error margin of just a couple of metres.
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