Those are excellent pics and it looks like the dust has sellted considerably.
I think you are getting better resolution with the wide field setup because I can see the sharp point of Syrtis Major and the bright spot above (Hellas). To the lower right I can also see a darkened area (Mare Acidalium). These are the easiest features to recognize on Mars other than the South Pole at the top.
If you include the times of the exposures in your posts it makes tham easier to analyze.
Those are some fine captures! I have seen hi-altitude photos of them taken from aircraft but I didn't realize they could be taken from ground level.
The physics behind those things still has everybody perplexed. In fact the physics behind ordinary cloud to ground lightning still as everyone perplexed.
O they just keep getting weirder and weirderer. This doesn't relate to anything I'm familiar with so I'll just pass it off as space junk. There does seem to be an explosive effect here as the trails of the spinoffs don't quite line up.
It seems also to be a multiple event - well, at least two since some satellites travel in pairs or trios / quartets.
Trivia: Uranus was about 1 degree out of the frame.
Forty in one hour is much better than I did and I did a five hour session on the 13th AM. Reports varied from "what meteor shower" to "best Perseids ever". Go figure.
Pete Lawrence, a fine imager from the UK remarked the other day that the Perseids are a "stastistical beast".
A friend of mine from Hot Springs gave me a buzz on the cell phone about 2:30 am and we went outside spotted a few Perseids. A couple of them were really bright with distinct NE visible ion trails.
I guided her to the radiant point over the phone and we had a good hour with about 10 spotted between us. There was a lull in the activity about 3:30.
Skeeters tore me up... Went in for a DEET bath....
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