Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In August, we have two full moons in one month, a great look at the Ring Nebula, and the Perseid meteor shower. "Tonight's Sky" is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes — and other astronomy videos — at HubbleSite.org.
Is the festival to Hekate often written about in modern Pagan literature as being in mid-August (usually the 13th of August, or the 16th of August) also an ancient festival to the Torchbearing Goddess of the Crossroads? Sorita d'Este discusses the festival in the context of the ancient calendar, and a festival to the Goddess Diana, as well as the Perseids (a meteor shower in August). For more information on Hekate see www.sacredfires.co.uk and http For Sorita d'Este see www.sorita.co.uk
Rocky Mountain High Written by John Denver and Mike Taylor "Mike Taylor sat down and showed me [the opening] guitar lick and suddenly the whole thing came together. " John Denver wrote "Rocky Mountain High" in August 1972 after watching the perseid meteor shower on a camping trip. "Do you see that?" It got bigger and bigger until the tail stretched out all the way across the sky and burned itself out. Everybody was awake, and it was raining fire in the sky. "And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun." This line is about his experience with LSD. "And he lost a friend but kept a memory." This is another true event. One of John's friends died in a motorcycle accident. ------------- lyrics --------------------------------------- He was born in the summer of his 27th year Coming home to a place he'd never been before He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again You might say he found a key for every door When he first came to the mountains his life was far away On the road and hanging by a song But the string's already broken and he doesn't really care It keeps changing fast and it don't last for long But the Colorado rocky mountain high I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky The shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullaby Rocky mountain high He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below He saw everything as far as you can see And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun And he lost a friend but ...
THE PERSEIDS - Get ready for one of the best meteor showers of the year! A Solar System event that can be enjoyed by nearly everyone on Earth! And with no Moon to hinder viewing this year, the 2010 Perseids should be a treat. This video, using the free astronomy-simulation software CELESTIA, shows you what to expect. Let us know at www.celestia4all.com how many Perseid meteors you see this year. May all of your voyages be joyous!
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
Astro Cinematography, Edited & Directed by Yo Suzuki / 鈴木陽( lovemushroom.com Love Mushroom Studio). More time lapse movies by Love Mushroom Studio Nature Landscape www.pond5.com AstroPhotography www.pond5.com Location: Red Rock Canyon, Mojave Desert, California, USA. Date: August 13 to 14, 2010. Music: When You Wish Upon a Star by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington. Piano by Celena www.amazon.com Perseids (Περσείδες) wiki The Perseids (pronounced /ˈpɜrsiː.ɨdz/) is the name of a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides (Περσείδες), a term found in Greek mythology referring to the descendants of Perseus. Greek mythology In Greek mythology the Perseides, "those born of Perseus" and Andromeda, are the members of the House of Perseus, descended, according to Valerius Flaccus through Perse and Perses. After the Greek Dark Ages, tradition recalled that Perseus and his descendants the Perseides had ruled Tiryns in Mycenaean times, while the allied branch descended from Perseus' great-uncle Proëtos ruled in Argos. The most renowned of the Perseides was Greece's greatest hero, Heracles.
Captured this unknown object with an erractic flight path while videoing the 2009 Perseid meteor shower. I have no idea what it could be. Captured in Georgetown, KY.
A time lapse movie taken the night of the apex of the Perseid meteor shower (08/12/2010) from Seattle, Washington. It's comprised of 999 photos taken 15 seconds apart from about 11 pm to 3 am A total of six meteors were captured, mostly only partial trails, lots of planes, some clouds, and the Taurus constellation shows up well near the end.
Where there were no rocks and then there was thousands. I go to this very remote location alot. One day no rocks, next day freshly cracked rocks , so I think Meteorites from space. When I was Discovering all these Meteorites I didn't realize how many assholes I would be finding! I believe this area has been hit by Comet clusters like when Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter. I discovered my first (mini) Strewn Field Aug. 18 th 2010 Every year mid Aug. the Earth travels though Comet Swift Tuttles path which makes the Perseid meteor shower that seams to originate from the dirrection of the Perseus constellation but is believed to come from the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt. These particles, rocks, and ice/rock bergs follow the same trajectory as the comet which traveled by Dec. 1992 and return's about every 125 years. Gases and smaller particles start to aspirate off a comet when entering our solar system around Jupiter's distance from the Sun and increasing with the solar winds and gravity as a comet gets closer to the Sun. The comet's rock/ice clusters are believed to have entered the atmosphere at a low speed direct angle to the back side of the Earths traveling dirrection. The meteorites were packed in an ice cluster so they stayed grouped but most were freshly cracked into pieces. Going from neg. 250 to super heated in a few second's cracks rocks. I found 8 strewn fields in 2010. Five more old ones this year. Each strewn field I found had between 8 to 42 pounds of rocks in an ...
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 early in the morning of January 4th 2012 to see if I could get some good meteor shots. There was plenty of activity but only one of them showed up on camera. Still made a nice little timelapse. About the Quadrantids: The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of the year. It gets it's name from Quadrans Muralis, an extinct constellation at the handle of the Big Dipper and just to the left of Arcturus. It peaks for only a few hours unlike other meteor showers which may last for 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 15 sec exposures 1 seconds apart 607 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
Sequence of 180 images shot between 3:00AM and 4:00AM on the morning of Wednesday, August 12, 2009 near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. Each image has an exposure time of 20 seconds using a Canon 20Da and a 15 mm lens.
SCDVA does Eye on the Desert KPSP2 News. Topic, Perseid Meteor Showers at the Integratron on August 13th 2011. Live projected deep space images right on the dome. Proceeds benefit the Mojave Land Trust.
