Three meteors, a comet, and the Milky Way over the salt flats

[Uilleann]

Spent a bit of time wandering around the desolation west of Salt Lake City this past weekend. About an hour and a half west of the big city, the salt flats (part of the west desert region) offer views in almost any direction that remain unobstructed for miles. Spent most of the night out there shooting till about 5 am. I was working on a series of images as I practicing my stacking technique to reduce noise in high iso digital astrophotography. As luck would have it, I managed to capture three separate meteors in a single frame (which NEVER happens!) - two extremely short (likely they were moving nearly head on towards the camera), and one very slow and long that tracked almost perfectly along the axis of the Milky Way. The alignment was uncanny. As it happens, it also passed very close to the faint comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak. This exposure was made at about half the sensitivity of my prior shot down at Capitol Reef NP about a month back. Always fun to capture the odd meteor even so.