THIS striking picture of star trails was captured in the New Forest last week.
Echo Camera Club member John Hanson took the image on Friday night during the Perseid meteor shower.
The annual spectacle started on July 17 and runs until August 24 but reached its peak last night and on Sunday.
Posting on the Echo Camera Club Facebook page, John said: "I knew where I wanted to go and what I wanted to capture.....and that was this star trail."
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris falling from the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle when it comes into contact with the Earth’s atmosphere. The comet orbits the sun every 133 years.
The meteors, mostly no bigger than a grain of sand, burn up as they hit the atmosphere at 58 kilometres (36 miles) per second to produce a shooting stream of light in the sky.
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