Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)
The Perseid meteor shower is my favorite astronomical event of the year, and one I look forward to all summer. I have fond childhood memories of staring at the skies with my parents, out on the back lawn. On this funky old chocolate/ivory zebra-striped blanket. The things you remember. [shrug]
Anyway, the image above is doubly neat, in that it is a Perseid seen against auroral glow in Colorado, taken in August 2000. Since anybody north of me (pretty much) has just seen a whopper of a geomagnetic storm, it seemed appropriate. And speaking of last night’s storm, I conclude with this beautiful shot from Denmark:
Photo credit: Jesper Grønne, Denmark
This blog celebrates space exploration, human spaceflight and the heavens, through 
My name is Danielle Signor, and I am a space cadet. 
#1 by Beth on August 4, 2010 - 8:15 am
I’m so mad; I stayed up for a big chunk of the night and we had nothing. I was outside of the city, looking north, clear skies… and there was nothing. Stupid aurora. :(
#2 by Danielle on August 4, 2010 - 8:49 am
Aww, that stinks! I thought for sure you’d see something. :(