Perseid Meteors from Durdle Door

What are these curved arcs within the sky? Meteors — namely, meteors from this year’s Perseid meteor shower. Over the previous few weeks, after the sky darkened, many images of Perseid meteors had been captured individually and merged into a single frame, taken earlier. Even though the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear a slight bit curved by the broad-angle lens of the shooting digicam. The meteor streaks can all be traced support to a single point on the sky known as the swish, here merely off the head of the frame within the constellation of Perseus. The identical digicam took a deep image of the background sky that introduced up the central band of our Milky Reach galaxy running almost vertically thru the featured image’s center. The limestone arch within the foreground in Dorset, England is identified as Durdle Door, a title thought to outlive from a thousand years within the past.