On the night of July 26, allsky cameras of the NASA fireball network detected three Perseid meteors in the skies over Tennessee and Alabama. The first seen by the cameras this year, these meteors are the "advance guard" of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks on the night of Aug. 12. NASA plans a live Web chat on Aug. 12 to observe the Perseids: www.nasa.gov
Mini Perseids meteor shower this week peaking on Thursday. MSNBC anchor interviews Derek Pitts, Chief Astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia explains where you can see the meteor shower. Perfect answer!
Delta Aquarids "Comet of Origin: unknown, 96P Machholz suspected Radiant: constellation Aquarius Active: July 12-Aug. 23, 2012 Peak Activity: July 28-29, 2012 Peak Activity Meteor Count: Approximately 20 meteors per hour Meteor Velocity: 25 miles (41 kilometers) per second Notes: It's not a good year for the Delta Aquarids -- light from the August full moon make them nearly impossible to see." Perseids "Comet of Origin: 109P/Swift-Tuttle Radiant: constellation Perseus Active: July 17-Aug. 24, 2012 Peak Activity: Aug. 12, 2012 Peak Activity Meteor Count: Approximately 100 meteors per hour Meteor Velocity: 37 miles (59 kilometers) per second Notes: Moonlight won't be as big a problem as last year, as its waning crescent won't rise until after midnight, and the shower peaks from about 10-11 pm local on the night of Aug. 12." www.jpl.nasa.gov The 2011 Perseid meteor shower images: 1) Huntsville all sky camera's meteor view on Aug. 12-13, with a bright full moon "smear" at the bottom. 2) Perseids composite, seen Aug. 12-13. Concentric circles are star trails. 3) Collage of Perseids taken throughout the evening and early morning of Aug. 10-15. All images are false-color (Credits: NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office) www.nasa.gov The 2010 Perseid meteor shower images: Composite of 2010 Perseid Meteors "The 2010 Perseid meteor shower is lighting up the August skies. This image shows two composite views taken on the night of Aug. 11, 2010. The image on the left shows a ...
Beautiful orrery(solar system model) avaiable in : www.orrerystore.com .This astonishing trailer was produced by Adrian West, the Virtual Astronomer. Adrian and I are members of the BAA, and we need your help cataloguing this year's Perseid Meteor Shower, which will be peaking very favourably this Thurday night/Friday morning shortly after New Moon. Details can be found at this link:• britastro.org full information on how to take part in the second annual Twitter Perseids Meteorwatch, check out the official site:• meteorwatch.orgTo keep up with the Tweeteors (yep, that is the official decision of the IAU Nomenclature Committee) follow VirtualAstro www.twitter.com support this great outreach initiative in future by subscribing to the Meteorwatch channel on YouTube:• www.youtube.com Perseid Meteor Shower is by far the best throughout the year, and this will be one of the best chances to see it in recent years. Get out there and witness the extraordinary beauty that tiny fragments of cometary dust and the Earth's atmosphere can orchestrate together. Clear skies, and have a great shower!
Compilation of 3 overnight timelapse clips of the 2010 Perseid Meteor Shower, shot in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. These three shoots were done over a two-night period. The first clip is not altered - it was done with a true 185 degree hemispherical lens, showing the horizon on all sides. The second clip is a version of that same shoot, with the horizon stretched out to always sit on the bottom of the frame. The final clip is a standard extreme fisheye lens, with the horizon showing only in the corners. Airplane trails are evident, but meteoroids are also present, though perhaps not as bright as one would generally think. You just need to look for them. The music is Puccini's Nessun Dorma, sung by Sarah Brightman. Though it was written for the male voice, I really prefer to hear a woman singing any opera, so that's my conscious choice. So there. Enjoy!
The 2010 Perseid meteor shower as seen from the Anna Maria Bayfront Park in Anna Maria, Florida. During the opening sequence, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge (connecting Pinellas and Manatee Counties) can be seen in the distance on the horizon. It is 7.6 miles from where I'm standing. Sequences were shot with a Nikon D300 camera with a 12-24mm lens. The individual images were each 30 second exposures shot at 1 minute intervals.
This is a time lapse movie taken with a Canon 400D SLR camera. Each frame is a 40sec exposure at ISO 1600, through a very wide angle lens (almost the full sky dome is recorded). Total time is 5 hours of consecutive exposures, so the video runs at 600x normal time. Unfortunately only very few meteors were caught, because the imaging system is not really sensitive to light. NOTE: Looks best at 720 resolution. See the startrails image at picasaweb: picasaweb.google.com
We arrive at Lake Webster in New Hampshire, head out for a nice Italian dinner and attempt to watch the Perseid meteor shower ( more like a sprinkle) and get locked out......
If you are looking for the Texas meteor from Feb 1st 2012 try this as a starting point. www.youtube.com Some really amazing video. Went out on April 21st,2012 to see if I could get some good meteor shots. This time from the roof looking straight up! We got more but they were all sort and/or dim. We had to max out the settings in order to see most of them on video. Still made a nice little timelapse. About the Lyrids: The Lyrids gets it's name from Lyra near Vega which is where they appear to emanate from.The meteors are the result of the Earth passing through comet Thather's(C/1861 G1) trail on it's 415 year orbit of the Sun. It peaked on Saturday the 21st but may be seen over the course of several nights. Canon T2i/550D Canon EF-S 17-55 lens with Wide angle extender f3.5 20mm (Widened with extender) ISO 640 Intervalometer part of Magic Lantern firmware 14 sec exposures 2 seconds apart 1278 separate exposures frames colored and synced in Lightroom rendered in Sony Vegas Music is by Kevin MacLeod Incompetech.com "The Snow Queen" ISRC: US-UAN-11-00872
Edited highlights of the whole shower here, www.youtube.com The best meteor is at 38 seconds and two good ones (well 3 but I copied one twice by mistake), one after the other at about 1min in. At 2min 10s there are 5 Perseids in the space of 3 minutes! Please note these are mostly Perseids but some are not, can you guess which? The Perseid meteor shower as seen from County Down Northern Ireland. There was some cloud around that blotted out the entire hour between 2 and 3am :( But considering this is Ireland, a mostly clear night is pretty good going. In fact due to our increasingly cloudy and wet summers here, this was probably the best view I have had of the Perseids in 5 years. There were 2 borderline fireballs which is ok, but theres still tonight to go, so hopefully will get a monster before the Perseids leave for another year! Still composite image here, www.facebook.com
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If the weather was clear after midnight Saturday night and if the Lyrid meteor shower of 2012 was good to you, you could have seen the sky falling. Every year at this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of an old comet called Thatcher, and the result is a meteor shower -- shooting stars, usually about 10 to 20 per hour, streaking across the night sky as debris from the comet enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns up. The comet is far away from us now; Thatcher orbits the sun once every 415 years in a long, elliptical orbit. But debris from it has spread out along its path, mostly pieces of dust or rock smaller than grains of sand. As they come slicing into the upper atmosphere, at speeds of more than 100000 mph, they burn up 50 to 70 miles over our heads. It is a quiet, vivid way for them to end. The Lyrids are one of the weaker annual meteor showers (most skywatchers prefer the Perseids in August or the Geminids in December), but this year the Lyrids coincided with a new moon. "Typical Lyrids are about as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper," said Bill Cooke, who heads NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. "And it's not unusual to see one or two fireballs when the shower peaks." So-called fireballs happen if an unusually large piece of debris makes it into the lower atmosphere, breaking up -- sometimes audibly -- at altitudes of less than 20 miles from Earth. In general, there are more shooting stars in the morning ...
August 12th 2011 Make sure you look up on Sunday night to watch annual Perseid meteor shower, considered optimal this year because there won't be a moon in the sky. It's best viewed with the naked eye. Brian Williams reports.Follow UFOs and Alien Life on Twitter @ twitter.com "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use."
20-second images (640 of them!) captured over four hours in aa dark sky environment not far from San Jose, California. Edited using Microsoft Live Movie and set to music by Carole King (used without permission). To see the dim satellite noted in the beginning, try HD mode, full screen.
The first meteor shower of 2012 — the lesser known Quadrantid meteor shower — will kick off a new year of skywatching when it peaks on Wednesday (Jan. 4). While many meteor displays in 2011 were washed out by a bright moon, the Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to put on a spectacular light show, with no pesky moonlight to interfere. The peak of the Quadrantids will occur at around 2 am EST (0700 GMT) on Jan. 4. If you're planning to stay up late to catch the peak, you could be treated to meteors at a rate of 100 per hour, NASA officials said in a statement. Luckily, the waxing gibbous moon will set at around 3 am local time, so as long as there are clear skies, conditions should be ripe for meteor watching into the pre-dawn hours. The sky map available here shower where to look to see the Quadrantid meteors. Unlike the more well-known Perseid and Geminid meteor showers, the Quadrantids last only a few hours, so skywatchers have a narrower window of opportunity to spot them. Meteor showers occur when Earth travels through leftover debris from comets or asteroids. They are often known as "shooting stars," because of the way they streak across the sky. The Quadrantid meteors originate from an asteroid called 2003 EH1, and were first seen in 1825. According to some studies, this cosmic body could be a piece of a comet that broke apart several centuries ago, and the Quadrantids are the crumbled relics of debris from this fragmentation, NASA officials said. [ 12 Must-See ...