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Can You Count the Meteors Flying by in This Time-Lapsed Vid. of Joshua Tree Park?

Sep. 18, 2012 8:30pm Liz Klimas

TheBlaze has seen its fair share of time-lapsed videos of meteor showers. But this is no ordinary video showing the flying space rocks across the night sky.

In the Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California, filmmaker and photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee says he “encountered so much more” than he intended when he first set out to film the Perseid meteor shower.

Jun Wah Lee’s video — Ascendence — shows time-lapsed footage of not only the trees and meteors, but also lightning (this really gets going around 2:15 into the film), the Milky Way and rainbows.

Henry Jun Wah Lee Creates Time Lapsed Video of Perseid Meteor Shower in Joshua Tree National Park

(Image: Vimeo screenshot)

The film to him shows “nature’s unpredictable power and beauty.”

(Image: Vimeo screenshot)

Now, are you ready for his challenge? In the video’s description, Jun Wah Lee urges you to watch the video at full screen and count the meteors (Note: they really start flying around 1:20 ):

If you were fast enough to count the meteors, let us know in the comments how many you tallied up.

(H/T: io9)

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garylee123
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:00am
I goes too publik skool. deres be 14 meattors in dis ski.

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dablmc
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:47am
Genepagliari did you know monkey hunters are easily distracted: stay on task fool!!

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80mesh
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:00am
with the video stuttering and stopping every 1/2 second i was able to count 24 representations of ol flappy ears economy and foreign policy burning up in the atmosphere

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thegoldman
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:59am
April fools !

You are looking at airplanes !

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- corbecket
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:25pm
  Yes, these are aircraft. This is “fast motion” time lapse. A meteor is only visible for a very short period of time, and would not be around long enough to show a trail.
  
  What you are looking at are aircraft, or possibly satellites occasionally. Very pretty though, whether aircraft or whatever.
  
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Grawpy
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:42am
Wow, no Uranus jokes. I’m impressed.

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- 48Straights
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 1:12am
  There are no ancient bristlecone pine forests on Uranus. Not that I would know or want to find out.
  
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DEFCON4
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:10am
Twenty Nine Palms, just a “grid” across the “street”.
aahh, live fire excer-rises……….

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- Chuck7884
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 4:23am
  you mean 30 days of fun in the sun without a shower !.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:58pm
I miss being a kid and seeing the milky way with out light pollution!!

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Beauzeaux
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:48pm
GENEPAGLIARI!!!!!!!!…..lololol
you can’t see the gorillas, cuz they were busy making feather mattresses, so they don’t get hurt falling out of trees!

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48Straights
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:47pm
I saw allot of airplanes and satellites, hardly any meteors.

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floridareader
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:38pm
I got 29.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:54am
  Whatta ya takin’ for it?
  
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The-Monk
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:31pm
Hell, that’s nothing. Jan 1976, Hawksbill Mountain, Shenandoah Park. Counted 1 meteor every second for hours. Still, beautiful photography. As for a great meteor shower… pffftt.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:07pm
The dessert is one of the best places to watch stars-no city lights to get in the way. We lived in Littlerock (Antalope Valley, Ca), and loved star watching. Saw a lot of meteor showers too. Wonderfull memories.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:16pm
  Cantalope Valley? or Antelope Valley?
  
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:05pm
@KORBIN
Glad to hear it.

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- hi
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:41pm
  I laughed so hard too! Beck needs to hire you!
  
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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:07am
  Can’t, gotta feed the gorillas….
  
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Chuck7884
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:46pm
The pictures are not from Joshua Tree national park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Tree_National_Park

pictures from above link are what you will encounter.The above pictures is from the forest mentioned in the article.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:02pm
  Sorry, there’s no gorillas in those pictures, either.
  
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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:52pm
  Wrong. The video was filmed in both locations. At 28 seconds into the video, you see Joshua Trees. Guess where they are? Read the full description of the video at Vimeo. The lightening storm is in Joshua Tree.
  
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KickinBack
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:32pm
Beautiful video, Thanks Blaze!

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- Samsss
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:10pm
  I watched the video several times and was truly struck by the beauty of this place. I appreciate the efforts of the ones who created and posted it – and am sorry there were so many “detractors” – and so few serious “comments”. I believe there were probably about 13 meteorites and a few planes. Meteorites will definitely “streak” (long) across the sky, depending on their speed and other factors. This was obviously filmed at a slower speed and when played back at the 30fps of this computer, this effect was heightened as the display was faster,
  I was blessed to see a Leonid shower on or about the 16th of November, 1967 tho I had no idea it had been forecast the night before. We rose very early to go goose hunting and when I went out into the crisp morning air in Lake Charles, LA, the sky was a blaze of light!! Thousands of meteorites were visible all over the sky, all coming from in the area of the constellation Leo. The goose hunt was forgotten as we lay on our backs, on top of my car and marvelled at what God had done that morning. There were many, many “pops” as larger pieces burned and disintergrated over out heads and emitted the sounds as they were traveling far in excess of the speed of sound and we actually heard them break the sound barrier!
  I have risen in the middle of nights many times since but have never seen anything to even remotely compare. I was unable to photograph anything but I did call several friends and they were all extrememly grateful
  
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:26pm
OK, I watched the video. When do we torch the Embassy?

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- thegoldman
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 1:02am
  Can i help ?
  
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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:06am
  If you bring your gorillas…
  
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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:11pm
LOL…Did you not see both gorillas or just the first one?

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Beeree
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:08pm
I’d wager that most of the light streaks were airplanes, meteors are usually short lived and definitely wouldn’t streak across the entire sky.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:16pm
  They would if gorillas were chasing them.
  
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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:46pm
  Then you have never experienced the the beauty of the Persied Shower in the deserts of California! This was actually tame compared to what I have seen. But then it is time lapsed so it doesn’t catch them all. Or maybe during the shower, all airplanes in SoCal are up there flying by to fool you…at 18,000 to 72,000 miles per hour!
  
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korbin
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:01pm
I live in Joshua Tree didn’t know we had an ancient bristlecone pine forrest..

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:16pm
  If they’re not there then you can’t count them. Were they behind the gorillas?
  
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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:24pm
  If you don’t know the forest is there, how can you hear the gorillas fall out of the trees or can you?
  
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- Chuck7884
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:29pm
  I lived in 29 palms sophomore and junior year of high school did a lot of exploring there at Joshua Tree. lot of good times we had there.it does have a beauty of it’s own.for a desert.
  
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- korbin
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:39pm
  @genpagliari you made me piss myself that was good.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:58pm
Could not get the video to play; sorry.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:32pm
  Try clicking on it.
  
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godhatesacoward
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:57pm
Twenty- five! GIVE OR TAKE 14 BILLION! A SIMPLE ANSWER CANNOT BE POSTED BECAUSE NUMBERS ARE JUST THAT.

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MDECKER
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:56pm
438, give or take 20,000.

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Benjaminu1
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:54pm
I counted 51

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- Mr.Fitnah
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Concur
  
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Tigress1
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:43pm
22-23?

Beautiful video.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:12pm
  Close enough.
  
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hi
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 8:36pm
I didn’t see the gorilla again.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Thick forest…?
  The gorilla was chasing planes…?
  Not the right forest…?
  To get to other side…?
  Right forest, wrong gorilla…?
  
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