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An amazing sky! The Milky Way Galaxy is visible along the left. If you’re near a dark sky, you can usually see part of our galaxy. There is also a bright meteor visible on the upper right, part of a very bright Perseid Meteor Shower from last week. Red sprites, a type of lightening visible on the lower right, also make an appearance in this image. Nova RS Ophiuchus discovered about a week ago, is visible just above the image center. Novas bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye occur every few years. It was such a special occurrence to capture all these things together, in a single night, on a single sky, above Zacatecas, Mexico.
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona
Where are all these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the straight answer is the constellation of Perseus- which is why the meteor shower that peaks tomorrow night is known as the Perseids. In other terms though, the Perseids meteors come from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet follows a well-defined orbit around our Sun, and the part of the orbit that approaches Earth passes in front of the Perseus constellation. Therefore, when Earth crosses this orbit, the radiant point of falling debris appears in Perseus.
Featured here, a composite image taken over eight nights and containing over 400 meteors from 2018 August’s Perseids meteor shower shows many bright meteors that streaked over Kolonica Observatory in Slovakia. This year’s Perseids holds promise to be one of the best meteor showers of the year. Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
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Perseid Meteor Shower over Pikes Peak. The moon did not make it very easy this morning but I am happy to have captured several meteor strikes. Only took around 15000 photos. ;) #colorado #visitcolorado #larsleberphotography #coloradosprings #my_cosprings #manitousprings #pikespeak #perseidmeteorshower #perseids #meteorshower #meteor #visitcos #visitpikespeak #canonusa #amongthewild #wildandco #allbeauty_addiction #onlyincoloradousa #outtherecolorado #coloradotography #bns_earth #earthfocus #natureperfection #nightscaper #longexposure_addiction #nightphotography_exclusive #colorado_creative #coloradical #look303 #co14ers
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An itty bitty meteor passing by during the Perseid meteor shower on Wednesday night as seen from Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
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A four photo stitched panorama up at Kite Lake, outside of Fairplay, during the Perseids Monday night. Mt Bross is the on the right side of the screen.
August 12, 2013 | Canon 60D | Digital
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Got a cold, feel very watery & dopey, so dopey I forgot to make the coffee for breakfast
So am going to chill & crochet today, although we might have a wander about the moor this afternoon so I can photograph Sagittarius A.
#amandaperkins #exmoor #perseids #crochet #crochetscarf #crocheting #crochetaddict
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Perseid Scarf
The perseids are a meteor shower that move over the moor every August. On a clear night they are easy to see as the sky seems to be full of shooting stars
This is the entire length of the scarf, I think the Perseids are beginning to becoming clearer.
#crochet #amandaperkins #exmoor #perseids #crochetscarf #crochetaddict
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Slowly working my way through the post show chaos, still more to do today.
But I’m also working on my Perseid Scarf, I think it’s going to end up looking very wonky & lopsided because the meteors are only moving in one direction. It’s also going to be gigantic, better buy some more wool
#crocheted #exmoorstars16 #crochet #crochetaddict #crochetscarf #amandaperkins #perseids
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Perseids Meteor Shower: A September Surprise (Sept. 11, 2008) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center An unexpected flock of fireballs burst over the eastern United States early Sept. 9, but sharp-eyed Marshall Center astronomers were on the case. Lasting almost four hours, the
shower contained about 25 meteors that were as bright as Jupiter and Venus in the morning sky. Early analysis suggests that NASA’s photos are the first-ever observed outburst of the September Perseids, which result from an unknown comet.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Bill Cooke
Read more:
www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/08-113.html
View more images in our Meteor Shower set:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157607380035209/https://flic.kr/p/5kRpM9
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The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The meteors are called the Perseids because the point from which they appear to hail (called the radiant) lies in the constellation Perseus. The name is derived from the word Perseidai (Greek : Περσείδαι), the sons of Perseus in Greek mythology.
What we see as “shooting stars” is actually a cloud of debris – tiny pieces ejected by the comet Swift-Tuttle, as it travels along its 133 year orbit around the sun. These particles burn up in the earth’s atmosphere at around 80 km height. They are visible every year from July to August and reach maximum activity between August 9-14, depending on the 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 Perseids are primarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere. [from Wikipedia]
Shown above are photos from my first attempt at capturing the “Perseids”. They occurred in pretty much all directions and I saw some brilliant trains high in the sky as well as fireballs just short above the horizon line. But it was difficult to photograph them.
I set up the camera towards the North East and the constellation Perseus, with the widest angle available (f 18 mm) and 30 seconds exposure time. And then I spent the following 2 hours pressing the shutter every 30 seconds…
The camera did capture a few Perseids as well as plenty of planes. The difference is that a plane shows a twofold and non-continuous light trace (because the plane lights blink periodically) whereas the train of a meteor shows as a thin, continuous bright line on the photo.
Later that night Auriga rose in the North and the Pleiades became visible in the North East. The camera caught a small train directly above the Pleiades.
Around 2 am the sky started to cloud and my photo session ended.
In the photos I marked some of the constellations and stars for orientation. I hope you enjoy this little excursion. I recommend to check this website for further reading: https://sternenhimmel-fotografieren.de/sternbild-perseus-perseiden-h-und-chi-herz-und-seele-herznebel-sternschnuppen-finden-beobachten-fotografieren/
One of the better shots of the Persieds from Coventry, CT … click on the picture to see the rest!
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A long, bright Perseid meteor fireball captured last night at 14mm.
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Look up at the sky after 9:20pm tonight, to look for Perseid meteors. Even better after midnight!
We’re out under the dark skies of Central Nevada, where the Open Summit app says we’ll also have minimal smoke.
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#PerseidMeteorShower #astronomy #Astrophotography #photography #perseids (at Tonopah, Nevada)
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A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2015 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Source: NASA’s Instagram
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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