Portal:Astronomia/Artykuł miesiąca 08 2019
Meteor z roju perseid w 2010 roku nad teleskopem VLT.
Perseidy (PER) – jeden z najbardziej regularnych rojów meteorów, którego orbita przecina się każdego roku z ziemską w dniach 17 lipca–24 sierpnia. Maksimum roju obserwuje się pomiędzy 12 a 14 sierpnia. Rój ten związany jest z kometą Swift-Tuttle. Podczas okresu występowania roju radiant przemieszcza się przez gwiazdozbiory: Kasjopei, Perseusza i Żyrafy (w maksimum aktywności znajduje się w pobliżu gwiazdy η Persei). Przeciętna aktywność tego roju w ostatnich latach wynosi około 100 ZHR.
Są one obserwowane od około 2000 lat, zaś najwcześniejsze informacje o obserwacjach pochodzą z Dalekiego Wschodu.
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The 2010 Perseids over the VLT.jpg
Autor: ESO/S. Guisard, Licencja: CC BY 4.0
Every year in mid-August the Perseid meteor shower has its peak. Meteors, colloquially known as “shooting stars”, are caused by pieces of cosmic debris entering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocity, leaving a trail of glowing gases. Most of the particles that cause meteors are smaller than a grain of sand and usually disintegrate in the atmosphere, only rarely reaching the Earth’s surface as a meteorite. The Perseid shower takes place as the Earth moves through the stream of debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle. In 2010 the peak was predicted to take place between 12–13 August 2010. Despite the Perseids being best visible in the northern hemisphere, due to the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle's orbit, the shower was also spotted from the exceptionally dark skies over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. In order not to miss any meteors in the display, ESO Photo Ambassador Stéphane Guisard set up 3 cameras to take continuous time-lapse pictures on the platform of the Very Large Telescope during the nights of 12–13 and 13–14 August 2010. This handpicked photograph, from the night of 13–14 August, was one of Guisard’s 8000 individual exposures and shows one of the brightest meteors captured. The scene is lit by the reddened light of the setting Moon outside the left of the frame.
Autor: ESO/S. Guisard, Licencja: CC BY 4.0
Every year in mid-August the Perseid meteor shower has its peak. Meteors, colloquially known as “shooting stars”, are caused by pieces of cosmic debris entering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocity, leaving a trail of glowing gases. Most of the particles that cause meteors are smaller than a grain of sand and usually disintegrate in the atmosphere, only rarely reaching the Earth’s surface as a meteorite. The Perseid shower takes place as the Earth moves through the stream of debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle. In 2010 the peak was predicted to take place between 12–13 August 2010. Despite the Perseids being best visible in the northern hemisphere, due to the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle's orbit, the shower was also spotted from the exceptionally dark skies over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. In order not to miss any meteors in the display, ESO Photo Ambassador Stéphane Guisard set up 3 cameras to take continuous time-lapse pictures on the platform of the Very Large Telescope during the nights of 12–13 and 13–14 August 2010. This handpicked photograph, from the night of 13–14 August, was one of Guisard’s 8000 individual exposures and shows one of the brightest meteors captured. The scene is lit by the reddened light of the setting Moon outside the left of the frame.