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APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:14 am
by APOD Robot
Geminid Meteors over Chile
Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the
annual Geminid meteor shower rained down on planet Earth over the past few weeks. Recorded near the shower's peak over the night of December 13 and 14, the above
skyscape captures Gemini's shooting stars in a four-hour composite from the dark skies of the
Las Campanas Observatory in
Chile. In the foreground the 2.5-meter
du Pont Telescope is visible as well as the 1-meter
SWOPE telescope. The skies beyond the meteors are highlighted by
Jupiter, seen as the bright spot near the image center, the central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy, seen vertically on the image left, and the pinkish
Orion Nebula on the far left. Dust swept up from the orbit of
active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini's meteors enter the atmosphere traveling at about 22 kilometers per second.
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Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:19 am
by geckzilla
This is a great composition.
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:24 am
by ta152h0
it all looks so sharp and focused. And beautiful !
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:57 am
by Ann
Yes, great picture!
Note the purplish-pink Rosette Nebula at center left. And is that the Beehive Cluster at about 3 o'clock?
The Pleiades are sinking.
Δέδυκε μεν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδεσ, μέσαι δὲ
νύκτεσ πάρα δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω. [transcription]
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, the time is going by and I recline alone.
Sapho
Ann
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:17 am
by Boomer12k
DUCK!!!! Incoming!!!
Nice picture!
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Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:58 am
by starsurfer
Those skies are incredibly dark! I can even see Barnard's Loop and Sh2-264!!!
P.S. Yay tomorrow's APOD is RCW 58!
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:14 pm
by BDanielMayfield
APOD Robot wrote:
Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminids annual Geminid meteor shower rained down on planet Earth over the past few weeks.
Today’s APOD photo is a vastly better example of the geminids than the photo provided in the Wikipedia article linked to in today’s description. That photo is meteorically mediocre, containing only one measly meteor half covered up by a bush! A good photographic example of a meteor shower should show numerous meteors radiating from the namesake constellation, IMO.
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:38 pm
by Anthony Barreiro
This is a lovely composite, both for the Geminids and the deep sky, with Jupiter and a couple of observatories thrown in as bonuses! Somehow with the radiant fairly low to the horizon and so many meteors in a tight pattern, i really get the sense that Earth is flying into a debris stream.
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:26 pm
by rstevenson
BDanielMayfield wrote:[Today’s APOD photo is a vastly better example of the geminids than the photo provided in the Wikipedia article linked to in today’s description. That photo is meteorically mediocre, containing only one measly meteor half covered up by a bush! A good photographic example of a meteor shower should show numerous meteors radiating from the namesake constellation, IMO.
Wikipedia can only publish images which are in the public domain or which have been donated to it. If you are the copyright holder of a better image and wish to donate it, please do so, for the betterment of humanity.
Rob
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:15 pm
by BDanielMayfield
That's good to know Rob. Thanks.
As for your suggestion, I'm not, so I don't, but if I did, I would.
Bruce
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:29 pm
by Ron-Astro Pharmacist
starsurfer wrote:Those skies are incredibly dark! I can even see Barnard's Loop and Sh2-264!!!
P.S. Yay tomorrow's APOD is
RCW 58!
Don’t be so sure. Those APOD people are tricky. Lots of bubbles out there
It’s liable to be a GRB -
Or a BBB ?? (Big Bang Bubble) -
![BBB.jpg](./download/file.php?id=11798&sid=3703c700ebde4ec6817ee47e16e3e94c)
- BBB.jpg (10.95 KiB) Viewed 2946 times
Monseigneur Georges Lemaître as a baby contemplating where he cam from ?? -
You just never know; I hope it’s a total new one….
Re: APOD: Geminid Meteors over Chile (2013 Dec 23)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:51 pm
by bactame
Monseigneur Georges Lemaître as a baby contemplating where he cam from ?? -
Childs World - Bubbles.jpg
Lemaitre image reminds me that it you exhale slowly when making your bubbles they accumulate the warm air from your lungs. Then when the bubble releases it goes up instead of down! When New Dawn dish detergent came on the market you could do this readily and my grandson and i spent hours and hours and hours doing this. Lemaitre looks like he has a bowl of New Dawn and he also is caught in a conundrum betwixt up or down.