by APOD Robot » Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:05 am
Night of the Perseids
Explanation: Have you ever experienced a meteor shower? To help capture the
wonder, a video was taken during the peak of the recent
Perseid meteor shower above the
Indian Astronomical Observatory in
Hanle,
India, high up in the
Himalayan mountains. Night descends as
the video begins, with the central plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy approaching from the left and
Earth-orbiting satellites zipping by overhead. During the night, the
flash of meteors that usually takes less than a second is artificially extended. The
green glow of most meteors is typically caused by vaporizing
nickel. As the video continues,
Orion rises and
meteors flare above the 2-meter
Himalayan Chandra Telescope and the seven barrels of the
High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope (Hagar). The 2 minute 30 second
movie ends with the
Sun rising, preceded by a
false dawn of
zodiacal light.
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