Starship Asterisk*

It's not unreasonable that the lake could be of substantial size and the little water visible in the picture is only a small portion of the lake. The visible water looks dark because it is reflecting the sky in the background. Direct illumination would have little affect unless the lake's surface wa...

It should be possible to determine the path of the light causing the odd rainbows by finding their centers and using the known angles of refelction/refraction of raindrops.

In a dense crater field such as that, the walls of newer craters distort the geometry of the older ones.

I am a not very experienced observer who was located at approximately 35° 13' N, 117° 26' W, facing to the northeast and observing from 2130 12 Aug to 0200 13 Aug (times are PDT.) Almost half of the meteors observed did NOT come from the Perseid radiant but from the west (behind me) including the mo...