by Ann » Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:51 am
My personal sense of aesthetics makes the picture rather painful for me to look at. That shade of green! Set against the wan colors of the Andromeda galaxy! Also the green color of the meteor is quite unchanging, even though it is my understanding that meteors tend to change color from reddish, to green, to reddish again.
But I certainly don't know enough about meteors to say that the color seen in today's APOD is unlikely, let alone impossible. Lucky shot, too, when the meteor passed right in front of the galaxy - or rather, when the galaxy, the streak of the meteor and the photographer were lined up in a straight line.
Nice picture. Now I'll go and look at something that is gentler on my eyes.
Ann
My personal sense of aesthetics makes the picture rather painful for me to look at. That shade of green! Set against the wan colors of the Andromeda galaxy! Also the green color of the meteor is quite unchanging, even though it is my understanding that meteors tend to change color from reddish, to green, to reddish again.
But I certainly don't know enough about meteors to say that the color seen in today's APOD is unlikely, let alone impossible. Lucky shot, too, when the meteor passed right in front of the galaxy - or rather, when the galaxy, the streak of the meteor and the photographer were lined up in a straight line.
Nice picture. Now I'll go and look at something that is gentler on my eyes.
Ann