[ASTRONOMIA] ¨ Perseus and the Lost Meteors

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image credit & copyright: Tomas Slovinsky (Slovakia) & Petr Horalek (Czech Republic; Institute of Physics in Opava)




what's the best way to watch a meteor shower ?

tone thing that is helpful is a dark sky, as demonstrated in the featured composite image of last year's Perseids

many more faint meteors are visible on the left image, taken through a very dark sky in Slovakia, than on the right image, taken through a moderately dark sky in the Czech Republic

the band of the Milky Way Galaxy bridges the two coordinated images, while the meteor shower radiant in the constellation of Perseus is clearly visible on the left

in sum, many faint meteors are lost through a bright sky

light pollution is shrinking areas across our Earth with dark skies, although inexpensive ways to combat this might be implemented



















































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