Tonight was the second night of the Perseid Meteor Shower, AKA Mother Nature’s PMS, lol. Yep, made that one up myself, hehe. Anyway, my best friend June and I grabbed some towels and my camera and went out into the woods/field behind my house to watch the show. It was really quite spectacular – we saw at least 30-50 meteors and one of them was super bright and looked like a firework! Reminded me of why I love the night sky. I brought my camera and tripod and made a time-lapse video. You really can’t see any meteors in the video, but the rotation of the Earth beneath the stars is nonetheless impressive. If you check my Flickr account, you can see the one image that captured an actual meteor. Not the best images in the world, but hey, it’s my first time photographing the night sky. Below is the time-lapse, which is about 2 hours compressed into 9 seconds.