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Credit & Copyright: Sebastien Gauthier
(Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic)
Explanation:
Have you contemplated your sky recently?
Last night was a good one for midnight meditators at
many northerly locations as
meteors from the
Perseid meteor shower frequently streaked through.
The Perseid meteor shower has slowly been
building to a crescendo but should continue to be rewarding
tonight and into the week.
Pictured above on August 1, a group of celestial sightseers
near Quebec,
Canada are treated to a dark and wondrous night sky that contained
bright stars,
green auroras, the
band of our
Milky Way galaxy, a majestic
Moon rising, the
International Space Station slowly
gliding by, and the occasional flash of a
Perseid meteor.
Although no meteors were caught in this frame, the
Big Dipper remained quite prominent.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: sky - aurora - Perseids
Publications with words: sky - aurora - Perseids
See also:
- APOD: 2024 August 12 Á Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
- APOD: 2024 August 11 Á Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
- APOD: 2024 July 17 Á Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky
- APOD: 2024 June 26 Á Timelapse: Aurora, SAR, and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2024 June 12 Á Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains
- APOD: 2024 May 20 Á Aurora Dome Sky
- Aurora Banks Peninsula