Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
Just after moonrise on August 12 this grain of cosmic sand fell by the sea, its momentary flash part of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. To create the Perseid meteors, dust along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle is swept up by planet Earth. The cometary debris plows through the atmosphere at nearly 60 kilometers per second and is quickly vaporized at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so. Perseid meteors are often bright and colorful, like the one captured in this sea and night skyscape. Against starry sky and faint Milky Way the serene view looks south and west across the Adriatic Sea, from the moonlit Dalmatian coast toward the island of Brac.
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Thats is so pretty
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Impressive work!
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thank you
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This is really impressive shot. What kind of camera did you use? Will you be doing pictures of the eclipse on Monday?
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thank you! i personally won´t do pics of the eclipse, no - we are a mirror of th astronomy picture of the day, and i´m located in europe ... like the picture from the perseids was originaly made in hungary, http://www.astrophoto.hu/Aktualis if people send us their shots, we publish them
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Ok got ya 😊
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