Posts Tagged perseids

Perseid over Kauai

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on August 13, 2010

Perseid over Poi Pu, Kauai, taken Aug. 7, 2010. Photo by Jeff Berkes.

I went out last night around 11:30, got a crick in my neck and saw three Perseids (two small, one streaky and bright.) I also got a good eye-helping of the Milky Way. This photo is better than my experience in a way, as it combines the two — but really, the experience is much better than looking at a photo. (Even if you only see three Perseids. I’m sure they all came out just as soon as I walked back inside!)

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Perseid Aurora

Posted by Danielle in Picspam on August 4, 2010

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: