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Credit & Copyright: Sebastien Giguere
(Astrolab du Parc du Mont-Megantic)
Explanation:
Have you contemplated your sky recently?
This week will be a good one for midnight meditators at
many northerly locations as
meteors from the
Perseid meteor shower will frequently streaked through.
The Perseid meteor shower has slowly been
building to a crescendo and
should peak on the nights of August 11 and 12.
Pictured above on 2002 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 December 8 Á Aurora around Saturns North Pole
- APOD: 2024 October 16 Á Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
- APOD: 2024 October 13 Á Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps
- Northern Lights, West Virginia
- Aurora Australis and the International Space Station
- APOD: 2024 August 12 Á Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
- APOD: 2024 August 11 Á Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower