APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

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APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by APOD Robot » Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:08 am

Image The Perseids and the Plough

Explanation: Despite interfering moonlight, many denizens of planet Earth were able to watch this year's Perseid meteor shower. This pastoral scene includes local skygazers admiring the shower's brief, heavenly flashes in predawn hours near peak activity on August 13 from Nalati Grassland in Xinjiang, China. A composite, the image registers seven frames taken during a two hour span recording Perseid meteor streaks against a starry sky. Centered along the horizon is the Plough, the north's most famous asterism, though some might see the familiar celestial kitchen utensil known as the Big Dipper. Perhaps the year's most easily enjoyed meteor shower, Perseid meteors are produced as Earth itself sweeps through dust from periodic comet Swift-Tuttle. The dust particles are vaporized at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so as they plow through the atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second.

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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by BDanielMayfield » Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:36 am

This pastoral scene includes local skygazers...
Jersey Cows from the Far Side (of our planet).
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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by Boomer12k » Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:26 am

How much energy is released when a meteor disintegrates in a flash?

Nice image... very calm
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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by Ann » Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:57 am

BDanielMayfield wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:36 am
This pastoral scene includes local skygazers...
Jersey Cows from the Far Side (of our planet).
Wonder what our bovine friends call the cosmic Plough? Moo (Alkaid) - Moo-moo (Mizar and Alcor) - MOO! (Alioth) - Moo (Megrez) - Moo (Phecda) - Moo (Merak) - Moo<burp> (Dubhe)

And what do they call the Perseids? Sorry, I don't speak that much Cow.

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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by JohnD » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:32 am

As usual on my rainy side of the planet, it was b****y raining on the night of the 12th - and it's b*****y August!
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PS Ann, my dear friend, the Librarian of Unseen University knows the answer! Oook!

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Post by orin stepanek » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:37 am

At any rate; the Perseids don't seem to bother the cows at all! :lol2:
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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by De58te » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:47 am

So if I understand the description of the photo, there were 7 Perseid meteor streaks over a 2 hour period? That is about 1 every 15 minutes. That seems right. I usually spend 15 minutes craning my neck up only to here my partner say "Ooh, there goes one, did you see it?" but I was looking in the wrong direction. Rest assured though with your sympathy, I usually see one when I decide to go back in the door, turn around just for one last try, and one meteor obliges from just past the porch.

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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by neufer » Thu Aug 15, 2019 1:13 pm


orin stepanek wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:37 am
BDanielMayfield wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:36 am
This pastoral scene includes local skygazers...
Jersey Cows from the Far Side (of our planet).
At any rate; the Perseids don't seem to bother the cows at all! :lol2:
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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Re: APOD: The Perseids and the Plough (2019 Aug 15)

Post by orin stepanek » Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:59 am

neufer wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 1:13 pm

orin stepanek wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:37 am
BDanielMayfield wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:36 am

Jersey Cows from the Far Side (of our planet).
At any rate; the Perseids don't seem to bother the cows at all! :lol2:
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
If you say so Art: I'll drink to that! :b: Cheers :D
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