Starship Asterisk*

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200912.jpg A Thousand Meteors Ok, so it took me a little while to appreciate that "Arranged by local sidereal time" means that the 372 separate night pictures, which were all taken at different times of the day, were reshuffled to appear in local side...

goatrider wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:07 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:02 pm I had to look twice, I thought the subject was meters at first! Oh; there's an O in there!

So it's a "Kilometeor".

I might have to steal that.

So in spite of the headline the video was intended to show sidereal time of the Earth's rotation? Nevertheless a thousand meteors seen over 372 nights works out to less than 3 meteors a night! That's about right since that's the most meteors I wind up seeing a night during a meteor shower. There is...

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