Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 08/21/2025 12:15:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: In this predawn skyscape recorded during the early morning hours of August 13, mostly Perseid meteors are raining down on planet Earth. You can easily identify the Perseid meteor streaks. They're the ones with trails that seem to converge on the annual meteor shower's radiant, a spot in the heroic constellation Perseus, located off the top of the frame. That's the direction in Earth's sky that looks along the orbit of this meteor shower's parent, periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle. Of course the scene is a composite, a combination of about 500 digital exposures to capture meteors registered with a single base frame exposure. But all exposures were taken during a period of around 2.5 hours from a wind farm near Mönchhof, Burgenland, Austria. Red lights on the individual wind turbine towers dot the foreground. In their spectacular close conjunction, bright planets Jupiter and Venus are poised above the eastern horizon.
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔
I find that driving through these wind farm areas at night is extremely disorienting.
Wow.
I don’t care for them much myself. Still, it’s a cool picture.
“The 1833 Leonid meteor shower, a spectacular and intense event that occurred in North America on November 12, 1833, is widely regarded as the greatest meteor shower in US history, with an estimated rate of tens of thousands of meteors per hour.
“This event, where hundreds of thousands of meteors were observed in a single night, profoundly impacted those who witnessed it, leading to widespread fear and belief that the world was ending. It also sparked the first serious scientific study of meteor showers.”
I saved the picture at the Nasa site then right clicked on it and went to Properties> Details tab.
Exposure time: 5028 sec <— 83.8 minutes
F-stop: 2.8
ISO: 1600
I wonder if this is a composite photo as the very long exposure would have the lights on the tower be overblown.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.