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APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:06 am
by APOD Robot
Perseid Meteors over Turkey
Explanation: The Perseid Meteor Shower, usually the best meteor shower of the year, will peak late next week. A person watching a clear sky from a dark location might see a bright meteor every minute.
These meteors are actually specks of rock that have broken off
Comet Swift-Tuttle and continued to
orbit the Sun until they vaporize in
Earth's atmosphere. The featured composite image shows a outburst of Perseids as they appeared over
Turkey during last year's
meteor shower. Enough meteors were captured to trace the
shower's radiant back to the
constellation of Perseus on the far left. The tail-end of the
Perseids will still be going during the
total solar eclipse on August 21, creating a rare opportunity for some lucky astrophotographers to image a
Perseid meteor during the day.
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Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 5:20 am
by Boomer12k
Interesting idea... but I shall be too busy, and don't have that type of camera....
But I hope to get you all a some good images...
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Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 12:07 pm
by George Grammarian
"... image shows a outburst of Perseids...." "a outburst"? It's "AN outburst." Using "a" when it should be "an" (i.e., before a vowel sound) is becoming common, but it's still incorrect. Try reading "a outburst" aloud. There's a slight stop between "a" and "outburst." That's a disruption in the flow of the writing, which is rarely, if ever, correct.
Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:22 pm
by Fred the Cat
And if you get good meteor images during the eclipse you can contribute them to the
Eclipse Megamovie.
Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 3:25 pm
by neufer
George Grammarian wrote:
"... image shows a outburst of Perseids...." "a outburst"? It's "AN outburst."
Using "a" when it should be "an" (i.e., before a vowel sound) is becoming common, but it's still incorrect.
Try reading "a outburst" aloud. There's a slight stop between "a" and "outburst."
That's a disruption in the flow of the writing, which is rarely, if ever, correct.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outburst wrote:
outburst: a sudden, often violent expression of emotion.
- The man greeted us with AN outburst of invective.
(Anagram:
subtutor: An assistant tutor.)
From Middle English outbersten, outbresten, equivalent to out- + burst.
Cognate with Dutch uitbarsten (“to erupt; burst out”), German ausbersten (“to burst out; erupt”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_shower wrote:
<<A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. Intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor
outbursts, which may produce greater than 1000 meteors an hour.>>
Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 6:25 pm
by mason dixon
Has anyone ever caught a meteor during a total eclipse in a photo? I can't find anything on google.
Re: APOD: Perseid Meteors over Turkey (2017 Aug 01)
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:35 am
by neufer
mason dixon wrote:
Has anyone ever caught a meteor during a total eclipse in a photo? I can't find anything on google.
I'm estimating that with all the photographs to be taken in the U.S. for this upcoming eclipse there will be ~10% chance of at least one photo of a Perseid meteor crossing the moon during the eclipse. Not great odds ...but there's a chance.
