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Fireballs over Iran
"The light in the foreground is from the Moon. Of course, despite a bright sky, we can still see two fireballs!"
Credit: Alireza Azimi
Location: Alamut, Ghazvin, Iran
Image Date: August 12, 2017
Technical details: Canon 5Diii. Combination of double 30 second exposures.
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"The light in the foreground is from the Moon. Of course, despite a bright sky, we can still see two fireballs!"
Credit: Alireza Azimi
Location: Alamut, Ghazvin, Iran
Image Date: August 12, 2017
Technical details: Canon 5Diii. Combination of double 30 second exposures.
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METEORS ARE KINDA AMAZING
Perseid Meteor Shower at Dinosaur Park
Alan: "A composite of the Perseid meteors over Dinosaur Provincial Park on the night of August 12/13, 2017. A faint aurora is on the northern horizon at left. The meteors are accumulated over 3 hours of time recording 14 meteors extracted from a total of 645 images."
"One meteor obligingly appeared at centre that was particularly bright and left a long-lasting 'smoke' train."
"The Double Cluster in Perseus is the diffuse spot at centre near the radiant."
"This is a composite of a single image for the ground and sky taken as the start of the sequence, layered with 14 other images of meteors taken over 3 hours, masked to reveal just the meteor."
"The camera was on a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Mini tracking device to follow the sky, so the stars in each frame remained in alignment throughout the 3 hours of shooting. So the meteors are in their accurate places in the sky relative to the background sky, retaining the effect of the radiant point in Perseus at centre."
"However, the composite is a bit of a cheat in that the waning Moon rose about 30 minutes after the sequence of 645 frames started, brightening the sky a lot. So most of the meteor images had to be colour adjusted to make them blend into the 'start-of-the-night' dark sky background well. The shower was not so active that this many meteors were visible during the brief hour or so of dark sky this night before moonrise. So the image is not a realistic depiction of the night, but serves as an illustration of the shower radiant over a scenic landscape with the aurora a bonus."
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
www.albertaparks.ca/parks/south/dinosaur/
Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two-and-a-half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, or 48 kilometers (30 mi), about a half-hour drive northeast of Brooks. The park is situated in the valley of the Red Deer River, which is noted for its striking badland topography. The park is well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and more than 500 specimens have been removed and exhibited in museums around the globe. The renowned fossil assemblage of nearly 500 species of life, from microscopic fern spores to large carnivorous dinosaurs, justified its becoming a World Heritage Site in 1979. (Source: Wikipedia)
Technical details: Each image was 15 seconds at f/2.2 with the Sigma 20mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200.
Credit: Alan Dyer
Alan's Website: http://www.AmazingSky.com
Location: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
Image Date: August 12, 2017
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Alan: "A composite of the Perseid meteors over Dinosaur Provincial Park on the night of August 12/13, 2017. A faint aurora is on the northern horizon at left. The meteors are accumulated over 3 hours of time recording 14 meteors extracted from a total of 645 images."
"One meteor obligingly appeared at centre that was particularly bright and left a long-lasting 'smoke' train."
"The Double Cluster in Perseus is the diffuse spot at centre near the radiant."
"This is a composite of a single image for the ground and sky taken as the start of the sequence, layered with 14 other images of meteors taken over 3 hours, masked to reveal just the meteor."
"The camera was on a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Mini tracking device to follow the sky, so the stars in each frame remained in alignment throughout the 3 hours of shooting. So the meteors are in their accurate places in the sky relative to the background sky, retaining the effect of the radiant point in Perseus at centre."
"However, the composite is a bit of a cheat in that the waning Moon rose about 30 minutes after the sequence of 645 frames started, brightening the sky a lot. So most of the meteor images had to be colour adjusted to make them blend into the 'start-of-the-night' dark sky background well. The shower was not so active that this many meteors were visible during the brief hour or so of dark sky this night before moonrise. So the image is not a realistic depiction of the night, but serves as an illustration of the shower radiant over a scenic landscape with the aurora a bonus."
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
www.albertaparks.ca/parks/south/dinosaur/
Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two-and-a-half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, or 48 kilometers (30 mi), about a half-hour drive northeast of Brooks. The park is situated in the valley of the Red Deer River, which is noted for its striking badland topography. The park is well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and more than 500 specimens have been removed and exhibited in museums around the globe. The renowned fossil assemblage of nearly 500 species of life, from microscopic fern spores to large carnivorous dinosaurs, justified its becoming a World Heritage Site in 1979. (Source: Wikipedia)
Technical details: Each image was 15 seconds at f/2.2 with the Sigma 20mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200.
Credit: Alan Dyer
Alan's Website: http://www.AmazingSky.com
Location: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
Image Date: August 12, 2017
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Volcán de Fuego and Perseid Meteors
Sergio: "This photo features Volcán de Fuego, in Guatemala, erupting with three conspicuous Perseid meteors streaking across the sky. It was taken on the night of August 13, 2017. I had to work quite hard to find a spot offering a view of both the night sky and the volcanoes that wasn't cloud-covered. This entailed a night on the go and even a 30-minute trek through a river valley. At right is Acatenango, like Fuego, an active stratovolcano. Note the lamps of the climbers on its upper flank. The two bright stars above the volcanoes are Deneb at left and Alpha Cephei at right."
Credit: Sergio Montúfar
Location: Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala
Coordinates: 14.482778, -90.882778
Image Date: August 13, 2017
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Technical details:
A 22 image composite; ISO 5000; f/5.6; 10 second exposure for each image.
#Earth #Astronomy #Science #Space #Meteors #Perseid #Stars #Volcano #Eruption #VolcánDeFuego #Stratovolcano #Geology #Geoscience #Astrophotography #Guatemala #CentralAmerica #Photography #STEM #Education #EPOD
Sergio: "This photo features Volcán de Fuego, in Guatemala, erupting with three conspicuous Perseid meteors streaking across the sky. It was taken on the night of August 13, 2017. I had to work quite hard to find a spot offering a view of both the night sky and the volcanoes that wasn't cloud-covered. This entailed a night on the go and even a 30-minute trek through a river valley. At right is Acatenango, like Fuego, an active stratovolcano. Note the lamps of the climbers on its upper flank. The two bright stars above the volcanoes are Deneb at left and Alpha Cephei at right."
Credit: Sergio Montúfar
Location: Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala
Coordinates: 14.482778, -90.882778
Image Date: August 13, 2017
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Technical details:
A 22 image composite; ISO 5000; f/5.6; 10 second exposure for each image.
#Earth #Astronomy #Science #Space #Meteors #Perseid #Stars #Volcano #Eruption #VolcánDeFuego #Stratovolcano #Geology #Geoscience #Astrophotography #Guatemala #CentralAmerica #Photography #STEM #Education #EPOD
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Perseid Meteors and Noctilucent Clouds over Stockholm
Peter: "I was on my rooftop for almost 3 hours on the 14th of August starting shortly after midnight and caught 6 Perseid meteors and some low NLCs just before dawn. Venus is rising to the left of the skyscraper. I used a circular fisheye lens."
Credit: Peter Rosén
Location: Central Stockholm, Sweden
Image Date: August 14, 2017
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Peter: "I was on my rooftop for almost 3 hours on the 14th of August starting shortly after midnight and caught 6 Perseid meteors and some low NLCs just before dawn. Venus is rising to the left of the skyscraper. I used a circular fisheye lens."
Credit: Peter Rosén
Location: Central Stockholm, Sweden
Image Date: August 14, 2017
#Astronomy #Space #Science #Meteors #MeteorShower #Perseid #Perseids #Comet #SwiftTuttle #Earth #Atmosphere #NLC #Noctilucent #Clouds #Astrophotography #Photography #FishEye #Lens #Art #Panorama #SolarSystem #Cosmos #Universe #Stockholm #Sweden #Sverige #STEM #Education #CitizenScience
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Perseid Meteor By The Sea
Just after moonrise on August 12 this grain of cosmic sand fell by the sea, its momentary flash part of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. To create the Perseid meteors, dust along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle is swept up by planet Earth. The cometary debris plows through the atmosphere at nearly 60 kilometers per second and is quickly vaporized at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so. Perseid meteors are often bright and colorful, like the one captured in this sea and night skyscape. Against starry sky and faint Milky Way the serene view looks south and west across the Adriatic Sea, from the moonlit Dalmatian coast toward the island of Brac.
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
Tamas' website: http://www.astrophoto.hu
Location: Croatia
Release Date: August 16, 2017
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Just after moonrise on August 12 this grain of cosmic sand fell by the sea, its momentary flash part of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. To create the Perseid meteors, dust along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle is swept up by planet Earth. The cometary debris plows through the atmosphere at nearly 60 kilometers per second and is quickly vaporized at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so. Perseid meteors are often bright and colorful, like the one captured in this sea and night skyscape. Against starry sky and faint Milky Way the serene view looks south and west across the Adriatic Sea, from the moonlit Dalmatian coast toward the island of Brac.
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
Tamas' website: http://www.astrophoto.hu
Location: Croatia
Release Date: August 16, 2017
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Bright Perseid Fireball over Puerto Rico
Frankie: "This meteor and persistent train was taken during the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12, 2017 at 3:34am. The meteor trail seems to be coming from Andromeda, which is very near the Perseid radiant."
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea. It is an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller ones, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: Frankie Lucena
Location: Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Image Date: August 12, 2017
Technical details: Full spectrum Canon T3 camera with a 50mm lens at F/2.2 for 3 seconds at Iso 1600
#Astronomy #Space #Science #Meteor #MeteorShower #Perseid #Perseids #Comet #SwiftTuttle #Astrophotography #Photography #Art #Panorama #SolarSystem #Cosmos #Universe #Earth #CaboRojo #PuertoRico #Caribbean #Sea #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #CitizenScience #GIF #Animation
Frankie: "This meteor and persistent train was taken during the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12, 2017 at 3:34am. The meteor trail seems to be coming from Andromeda, which is very near the Perseid radiant."
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea. It is an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller ones, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: Frankie Lucena
Location: Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Image Date: August 12, 2017
Technical details: Full spectrum Canon T3 camera with a 50mm lens at F/2.2 for 3 seconds at Iso 1600
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skrzypskiAmazing starry night with #perseids over #MilkyWay over #Bieszczady mountains in #Poland.
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