Josh Dury Captures 30-Second Lyrid Meteor Composite Over Skye

2 articles · Updated · Space.com · May 11

Scotland’s Isle of Skye frames Dury’s new composite image, which shows several bright Lyrid meteors streaking beside the Milky Way above the Three Brothers of Skye waterfalls.
30-second exposures from a Sony A7S III and Sigma 14 mm lens, stabilized with a star tracker, were stacked and edited to pull out both the glassy waterfalls and dense galactic dust lanes.
Vega, Altair and Deneb anchor the scene as the Summer Triangle, while the North American Nebula and the Cygnus Loop appear lower in the field.
Dury, an award-winning astrophotographer and author of 2025 book "52 Assignments: Night Photography," described the shoot as a magical night of rushing water, dark skies and a rising Milky Way.

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