Dronfield Camera Club

05/09/2026

Come along to the Peel Centre on Saturday 12th September for our annual exhibition. 10am - 4pm. Free entry and refreshments available.

02/09/2026

28/08/2026

Mark Henchley
Stanage edge

19/08/2026

The 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower at Stonehenge ☄️🔥✨

Wow, what an amazing 4 nights photographing the best meteor shower of the year, in fact it has been the most productive shower i have photographed, new moon period plus the 4 clear nights on the trot made this years spectacular.
I managed around 150 captures from over 8000 photographs :O
This was using 3 cameras for 2 of the nights and 4 for the other 2.

The Perseid's are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late August. The meteors are called the Perseid's because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.

The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift–Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 133-year orbit. Most of the particles have been part of the cloud for around a thousand years. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1865, which can give an early mini-peak the day before the maximum shower. The dimensions of the cloud in the vicinity of the Earth are estimated to be approximately 0.1 astronomical units (AU) across and 0.8 AU along the Earth's orbit, spread out by annual interactions with the Earth's gravity.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity occurring between 9 and 14 August, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. They can be seen all across the sky; however, because of the shower's radiant in the constellation of Perseus, the Perseid's are primarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere. As with many meteor showers the visible rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since more meteoroids are scooped up by the side of the Earth moving forward into the stream, corresponding to local times between midnight and noon, as can be seen in the accompanying diagram. While many meteors arrive between dawn and noon, they are usually not visible due to daylight. Some can also be seen before midnight, often grazing the Earth's atmosphere to produce long bright trails and sometimes fireballs. Most Perseids burn up in the atmosphere while at heights above 80 kilometres (50 mi).

Largest Perseid meteoroids have masses of 7 kilograms (15 lb).

So here is the composite that on top of the 4 nights in the field has taken me around 8 hours to put together 🥹
But, totally worth it 🤩

This is not a photo, it's an image with the meteors captured added to an astro image from the night of the peak (composite)

Meteors 150 x 30s F1.4 to F2.8 ISO 800-1000
Sky RGB 6 x 120s F4 ISO640
Sky HA 4 x 180s F4 ISO 1000
Foreground 15s F4 ISO 400 taken mid blue hour

17/08/2026

1st place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Dave Jones.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.

16/08/2026

2nd place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Darren Worthy.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.

15/08/2026

3rd place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Nick Wheat.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.

14/08/2026

Joint 4th place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Dave Jones.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.

13/08/2026

Joint 4th place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Martin Satur.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.

12/08/2026

Joint 4th place in the 2026 Transport monochrome print competition by Nick Wheat.

Dronfield Camera Club meets at The Peel Centre, Dronfield most Thursday evenings 8-10pm. New members and visitors welcome. 🔗 Link in bio.