... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

See also: 2004 Perseids . This year's annual Perseid meteor shower takes place between the dates 17th July and 24th August, peaking on the night of 12/13th August, with a formal maximum in the small hours of Wednesday 13th August. ... This is the most famous of all meteor showers and rarely fails to provide an impressive display. ... Comet Swift-Tuttle takes approximately 130 years to make one circuit around the Sun, and sheds particles when closest to the Sun in its orbit. ...

... August 9, 1996 . The Perseid Meteor Shower . ... Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Dramatically illustrated in this composite video image made using MOVIE , meteors from the 1994 Perseids streak across the sky framed by the three bright stars of the asterism known as the "Summer Triangle" . ... What's the best way to enjoy a meteor shower? ... About APOD | ...

... 9.08.1996 . ... Credit: Sirko Molau , IMO , Archenhold-Sternwarte Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Indeed it is now known to be a regular August shower caused by the yearly passage of the Earth through the orbiting debri left behind by periodic comet Swift-Tuttle . ... The image shows bright Perseids recorded that year from August 9 through 14. ... August 1996 . ...

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... It's a Meteor Shower Smaller than grains of sand, meteors vaporize in a bright streak of light as they hit Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers come from comets, but the sporadic meteors on other nights are mostly asteroid bits. ... Meteor Showers Come From Comets Jupiter Earth Sun Comet Mercury Tips: A bright Moon can wash out meteors, making them hard to see. ... But the comet bits hit Earth's atmosphere so fast, the pieces vaporize in bright streaks -- making a meteor shower! ...

On September 15, 1998, the STScI director, Dr. Steven Beckwith, announced a special observation opportunity to the astronomical community during the Leonid Meteor Shower. During the peak of the Leonid meteor shower on November 17, 1998, HST will be pointed near the anti-radiant for ten hours. Anyone who is interested can submit ideas to STScI for scientific observations during this time. ... There are no HST observations in the archives for objects in this field. ...

... Observing . ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks mid-August . You donт??t need any equipment to view this summer meteor shower, although a Full Moon will create some observing challenges. ... The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 13, which is unfortunately on the same day as Full Moon. ... One of the most-observed meteor showers will peak August 13. ... Although the Perseids peak on the 13th, you can still catch meteors associated with the shower up to a few weeks on either side of the maximum. ...

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... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Figure 1a. This figure shows the secondary tilts required to correct for transverse flexures of both the telescope truss and the secondary mirror mounts as the telescope changes altitude. ... The circles show the x-tilts of the secondary needed to minimize telescope coma and the squares show the y-tilts required. ... The small negative slope which seen in the y-tilt data is possibly real. ... However, the y-tilt data are very consistent with the y-tilts measured on August 14 (Figure 1a). ...

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... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearlтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. Description: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are on the left and the Milky Way from Crux through Centaurus are on the right. ... This 10 min exposure shows star trails clearly defining the south celestial pole just left of centre. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this hand shower object POV file . This is three objects: a hand shower head, a wall mount bar, and a connecting hose. This is one of my least detailed objects; there's not even a clip to mount the hand shower to the sliding bar, it just floats. The hand shower itself does look pretty stylish, very rounded and cool looking. ... The showerhead is about yay big. ... WARNING: This POV object is based on a real object. ...

... 2000 August 18 . X-Rays From Antennae Galaxies . ... CXC , SAO , NASA . Explanation: A bevy of black holes and neutron stars shine as bright, point-like sources against bubbles of million degree gas in this false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory . ... The exploding stars litter the scene with bubbles of shocked hot gas and collapsed stellar cores . ... Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sky . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

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... Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today . ... S.A. Balashev, D.A. Varshalovich, A.V. Ivanchik, V.V. Klimenko , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... D.P. Barsukov, A.I. Tsygan , Ioffe Institute, Russian Federation . ... A.I. Kopylov, F.G. Kopylova , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... F.G. Kopylova, A.I. Kopylov , Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS), Russian Federation . ... Conference poster . ... Slide shows and posters . ...

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In the C and TC shell, to show the values of all your environment variables: printenv TERM=vt100 HOME=/home/eucs/helper SHELL=/usr/local/bin/Tcsh USER=helper TZ=GMT0BST UCBPATH=:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin ATTPATH=:/bin:/usr/bin UCBSHELL=/usr/local/bin/Tcsh ATTSHELL=/bin/sh LOGNAME=helper MAIL=/home/eucs/helper/.mail . ... This shows the value of an assorted range of variables. ...