If you , like me , are a quad nerd be in a urban center , then you’re able to apprize the struggle of finding clear skies to watch a meteor shower . But while I could n’t make it out from under Philly ’s ubiquitous light contamination umbrella last workweek , I got a perceptiveness of thePerseid meteor showerthanks to the magnificent work of astrophotographer Harun Mehmedinovic .
Mehmedinovic basically has the coolest job in the world . He , along with his shot collaborator Gavin Heffernan , travels every week to remote locales around the state , snapping mellow - resolution photos and time - lapse video footage of the night sky . It ’s all part ofProject SKYGLOW , a crowdfunded effort to raise cognizance of how urban light pollution is swamping out our connexion to the revolving surface area of adept and nebulas overhead .
As the one-year Perseid meteor shower light up our atmosphere with up to200 extraterrestrial fireballs per hour , Mehmedinovic catch the activeness from famous spots across the southwest , including the Very Large Telescope Array and the Mojave Desert . A pic of a human dynamo streak above the Grand Canyon gives our satellite an almost extraterrestrial lulu , and I dare you to show me something cool in No Man ’s Sky .
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