For those that weren’t aware, Saturday night was the peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. It was my last night staying up in the Jackson Lake Lodge area, so I figured I’d make the most of it and give my new Sigma 20mm f/1.8 a good test. As you can see, it works pretty well! There seems to be a bit of distortion on the edges, but nothing too horrendous. Overall I’m happy with it and am really excited to shoot more night shots.
The meteor shower itself, while it technically didn’t peak until the early hours before sunrise on Sunday, still got underway a couple of hours after sunset. That meant roughly 10:30-11pm here in Jackson Hole. I headed down to Oxbow Bend just before 10pm anyway to get set up and began shooting from there. There were plenty of sporadic dim meteors that were naturally away from the line-of-sight of the camera, but two hours later and I was getting ready to call it a night. I headed up the road about 100 yards to another vantage point at Oxbow Bend to grab a few quick shots, and on that last one, had a nice meteor streak across the sky right above Signal Mountain! I tried a few more random shots on my way in after that, but that was the climax of the night.