Mostly Perseids

In this predawn skyscape recorded at some level of the early morning hours of August 13, largely Perseid meteors are raining down on planet Earth. That you just may perchance additionally with out problems identify the Perseid meteor streaks. They’re the ones with trails that appear to converge on the annual meteor bathe’s lovely, a group within the courageous constellation Perseus, located off the pinnacle of the frame. That’s the direction in Earth’s sky that appears to be like to be like along the orbit of this meteor bathe’s mother or father, periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle. Of course the scene is a composite, a combination of about 500 digital exposures to determine meteors registered with a single wicked frame exposure. But all exposures had been taken at some level of a length of round 2.5 hours from a wind farm near Mönchhof, Burgenland, Austria. Red lights on the particular person wind turbine towers dot the foreground. In their spectacular shut conjunction, intellectual planets Jupiter and Venus are poised above the eastern horizon.