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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Длинный метеор из потока Леонид http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1162319/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Bob Yen
Explanation:
Just last week this long lovely
Leonid shower
meteor arced through the night.
Captured on November 17/18
by photographer Bob Yen,
the meteor trail spans
about 70 times the apparent diameter of the full moon
in the skies above Mt. Wilson, California, USA.
The Leonid's path flashes from the outskirts of
constellation Gemini to
the triangle-shaped head of
Taurus (lower right).
Of course, the trail points back toward
Leo, the shower's
eponymous radiant, while passing near such
night sky notables as galactic star cluster
M35 (upper left)
and Taurus's brightest star, red giant
Aldebaran.
Though the sky was ruled by a bright but waning Moon
and brilliant Jupiter, the
Leonid
meteor shower still awed
observers at dark sky locations with peak rates of hundreds
of meteors per hour.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.