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In response to APOD saying there was a microburst meteor shower happening simulatenously i would like to post my observations of that night. I was outside with 3 other people and trying to explain that all the perseids would appear to radiate from a single point in perseus, but i was having a hard ...

For starters, just a silly question but when did Orion's belt aquire a fourth star or is that just part of an optical illusion? Mysterious Streaks Over Turkey Orionid Meteors Over Turkey, Tunc Tezel, October 23, 2006 Orion on Film, Matthew Spinelli, Febuary 7, 2003 Orion - Stars in the Optical I th...

Hello, I am the photographer of today's APOD. The streaks in the picture you see comes from 5 different pictures I took, at 04:23-04:25, 04:31-04:33, 04:41-04:43, 04:51-04:53 ve 04:59-05:01 GMT+3, in the morning of 12th August (not 13th). I aligned the streaks according to the background stars they...

I went looking for some examples in my images: http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=468&UserId=54 http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=206&UserId=54 http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=469&UserId=54 http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=467&...

I surmise that the composite was made from five of these 105-second exposures, but don't know that for sure. There's no indication that a tracker was used, and you can't make a single 40-minute image with a Canon 300D in any case. The image metadata shows that the image was processed with Photoshop...