The most visible meteor shower in most years are the Perseids, which peak on August 12 of each year at over 1 meteor a minute. A useful tool to calculate how many meteors per hour are visible from your observing location is found here: http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/estimator.html. The most spectacular meteor shower is probably the Leonids, [...]
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Famous meteor showers
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Meteor Shower, Photo, tagged Leonids, Perseids on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leonids 2009
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, tagged Leonids, science on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Leonids 2009 meteor shower did not show any sort of storm or outburst. It was rather a normal meteor shower witha peak activity about 100 (comparable to Perseids). Well, we might have to wait quite a bit, say 20 years to the next expected outburst. The following plots are from IMO webpage, showing the [...]
Meteors and meteor showers
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, Photo, Terminology, tagged Leonids, Perseids, science on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A meteor is the visible streak of light that occurs when a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Meteors typically occur in the mesosphere, and most range in altitude from 75 km to 100 km. Millions of meteors occur in the Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most meteoroids that cause meteors are about the size of a pebble. They [...]
Leonids meteor shower
Posted in Astronomy, Meteor Shower, Photo, tagged Leonids, science on November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tonight is the peak of the Lenoids meteor shower. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Leonids have a normal (broad) component of dust particles along with filaments of newly ejected particles (by newly ejected, I mean in recent passages of the comet around the Sun). Each such filament contains [...]
