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2026 August 22
Mostly Perseids
* Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Koukal Valašské Meziříčí Observatory
https://www.astrovm.cz/cz/Explanation:
Recorded all during the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this single allsky view. On that night, the total meteor count came to 1,706 meteors. And since that night coincided with the activity peak of the 2026 Perseid Meteor Shower, most are perseids. Their overwhelming numbers make them easy to spot. Quite convincingly, perseid trails all trace back to a single radiant on the sky at the upper right, identified as a region in the annual shower's eponymous constellation Perseus. But meteors belonging to other much less active showers can be revealed by finding their radiants too. For example, seen crossing the perseid trails are meteors from a shower whose radiant lies in Cygnus, known as Kappa Cygnids. The antihelion complex, a general region near Aquarius and opposite the Sun in the sky, is also identifiable as weak source for meteors.
https://cementcz.eu/network-cement/
https://amsmeteors.org/2026/08/meteor-activity-outlook-for-august-8-14-2026/
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/perseids/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260818.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250725.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250725.html
https://www.popastro.com/meteor/meteor-showers/#Antihelion%20Source%20(ANT)%20Radiant%20Centre%20Locationshttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260822.html
#space #perseids #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod
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Perseids in the Vosges. I spent two nights in the Vosges mountains during the Perseid meteor shower. My new blog post features photos, text, and a soundscape.
https://www.silberspur.de/blogs/read/128
#Perseids #MeteorShower #Meteor #ShootingStars #Vosges #Astrophotography #Nature #Soundscape #artificialLightAtNight #alan #Astronomy #Sky #NightSky #Soundscape #SoundRecording #lightpollution #timelapse
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2026 August 18
Perseids from Perseus
* Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák
https://www.instagram.com/jakubkurak/Explanation:
This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was absent from lighting up Earth's night sky so that more meteors were visible than usual. Where was the Moon? It was busy visiting the Sun. Near the Perseids peak, the Moon moved directly in front of the Sun and created a total solar eclipse visible from Greenland and Spain. The Perseids occur when the Earth collides with a stream of Sun-orbiting debris cast off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. Perseid meteors, although typically only the size of a sand grain, tend to be fast and bright because Swift-Tuttle's debris orbits the Sun in a direction partly opposite Earth's orbital motion. In the featured image compilation accumulated over several nights from Jizerka in the Czech Republic, the Perseids meteor streaks can be traced back to a single location on the sky -- its radiant in Perseus.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/perseids/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220612.html
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/whats-up-august-2026-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240812.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170920.html
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/eclipse-snap/en/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260814.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260813.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240811.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240808.html
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-facts/how-is-beach-sand-created/
https://science.nasa.gov/sun/
https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/thumbnails/072/246/507/small/two-playful-puppies-having-fun-in-a-sunny-garden-showcasing-their-energy-and-joy-together-photo.jpeg
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcDiPkTO_me/
https://youtu.be/we1CzbCIdRQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant_(meteor_shower)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250812.htmlhttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260818.html
#space #perseids #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod
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2026 August 15
Bright Perseids from Sweden
* Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)
https://nattbilder.se/english/Explanation:
Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth's skies from a radiant in the heroic constellation Perseus. The popular northern summer celestial spectacle is created as grains of dust cast off along the orbit of periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle vaporize in Earth's dense atmosphere, tracing brief, but beautiful streaks through the night. Taken near the shower's peak of activity on August 12, this composite image recorded two bright perseid meteors and one meteor's watery reflection from a location near the coastal village of Grisslehamn, Sweden. Almost as bright as Altair, brightest star on the scene, the meteors appear along with the faint, diffuse background of the Milky Way. This year, the shower's peak activity coincided with a New Moon, so perseid meteor flashes were undiminished by bright moonlight. And for many skywatchers, this night of bright perseid meteors followed their viewing of the silhouette of the New Moon in a much anticipated solar eclipse.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/perseids/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260812.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260803.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260717.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180908.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220818.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260813.html
https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026/https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260815.html
#space #perseids #astrophotography #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #education #apod
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Bucky watched the Perseid meteor showers in Ontario for ten minutes! He's now my Astronomy Cat.
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Fellow heathens, tell me about your New Moon experience. This is an extremely unique moment astrologically, and as I'm very poorly versed in such things I can only really say that things *feel* so different right now. There are black holes opening up, somewhere, and things are inverting here on Earth. Where is this to bring us?
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There was a meteor fireball over Washington state at 00:48 local time. Here's what the things it lit up looked like on some cameras that were recording.
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Attending #ParksCanada #TerraNovaNP inaugural Dark Sky Festival. After the cosmic trivia event last night, clouds cleared conveniently just in time for a public viewing session. Couple fireballs got some good crowd ooohs and awwwes!
After the public session, captured this fireball at my campsite.
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First Aurora of the season with Perseids
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Last night some friends and I went meteor-watching in middle-of-nowhere California, and we were treated to one super bright one that was so low in the atmosphere it left a visible smoke trail that took at least a minute to dissipate! As well as many other meteors, less spectacular but still brighter than I've ever seen before, and excellent views of all the space stuff light pollution normally hides. A++ would recommend.
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A selection of last night's Perseids over London. One of the best nights I can remember.
(Also, I'm in inner London and can get shots like this!)
