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Please let you know, that the Perseid image is not mine, but Petr Horalek's. But I think, it's a pitty, that it wasn't an APOD for 2013 Perseids.

Thanks

Martin Gembec

As I can see now, I resolved one small mystery with second streak (the brightest, 2nd from bottom). As you can see, this flare is cutted in the left edge. Its simple. This flare occurs at 4:32:45 and typical flare last around 1 minute, so when the exposure was ended at 4:33, the flare did not end at...

OK ;) 1) Check location. I searched: Turkey, than Beynam.. it gives me: Beynam, Turkey WGS84: Lon: +32d53m45.0s Lat: +39d41m21.0s Alt: 1324m 2) Check date and time: Date 12. 8. 2007, time - the best is maybe UTC, so than you must enter 0:15 for beginning and 1 hour span (to 1:15 UTC).. And then you ...

Hey people, why do you not read previous information, that autor (Tunc Tezel) said .. 1) He said, that this image is made from 5 separate exposures 2 min each! Total exposure time is 10 minutes. 2) You totally ignore, that on the Internet is very good application called Calsky.com - please when you ...

We were observing at Beynam, Ankara, Turkey (the location data can be found at http://www.heavens-above.com). The streaks in the picture you see comes from 5 different pictures I took, at 04:23-04:25, 04:31-04:33, 04:41-04:43, 04:51-04:53 ve 04:59-05:01 GMT+3, in the morning of 12th August (not 13t...

When someone said. They are Iridium flares. Not only Heavens-Above show me for this day Iridium flare in Orion, but Calsky, better for this, too. So, for Ankara, 13. August 2007, there are these Iridium flares (on the image from bottom to top): Iridium 6, 0:16:16 UT Iridium 51, 0:24:45 Iridium 7, 0:...