COMING UP IN AUGUST: The month of August is just around the corner! We have some more astronomical events to add onto your calendar for the upcoming month that are worth seeing! And looking at the calendar, it is looking really active once again! The events are as follows:
Aug 12: Full Sturgeon Moon
Aug 12/13: Perseid Meteor Shower
Aug 14: Saturn at Opposition
Aug 27: New Moon & Mercury at Greatest Elongation East
Find out more information on these events using the following link:
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/sights-to-see.html
Also, make sure to also stay tuned for continued weather information and updates!
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There are a dozen of notable annual meteor showers. The Perseids on Aug 11/12 and Geminids on Dec 14 are usually the strongest, though this year both are affected by bright moonlight. Here I was on the mountains of New Hampshire and set one of the cameras to capture them in real-time video using a fast 35mm wide angle lens at f1.2 and a sensitive camera. The brightest meteors are called fireballs; those brighter than planet Venus which is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon. Most visible meteors do not create meteorites. They are caused by particles about a small pebble down to a grain of sand, weigh less than 1-2 grams. The brilliant flash of light from a meteor is not caused so much by the mass, but by its high kinetic energy generated by the speed. Fireballs like these are generated by a larger tennis ball meteoroid and may reach the ground in form of a small rock depending on its composition (ice, metal or rock). An upcoming notable meteor shower in 2022 will be the Leonids on Nov. 19 (expected to outburst). @twanight#meteorshower#astrophotography#sigmafpl
presents a photo by
@petrhoralek
N I G H T S C A P E R • Photo Award to
Petr Horálek
"Immersive Perseid Nights"
QUOTING Petr: Perseids Are Coming! Will you have a chance to gaze at the #perseids of this year? Annual #meteorshower is not disturbed by the Moon, so you can enjoy many #meteors up above (but far away from cities of lights!). This image is from last year. After many restrictions made the traveling for Perseids a bit complicated, I decided to stay at Seč lake, Czech "Iron Mountains", where the sky is not quite dark due to #lightpollution but still clear enough for watching the show. All nights around maximum were weather permitting and so I fulfilled one of my dreams - to capture the Perseids over rocks of #Oheb ruins, which is a local nature reserve. Under the #milkyway, the night of Perseids was truly immersive. Where will you gaze this year? • Please show support to our guest artists by visiting their IG gallery.
TECHNIQUE & EXIF: Pano / Composite • Canon 6D BCF Modified + Samyang 24mm • f2.2, ISO 8000, pano of 43 segments with 15s exposure from tripod + 109 meteors captured with Samyang 12 mm, f2.8, 30s timelapsing (registered to foreground panorama)
LINKS: www.petrhoralek.com
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