Living under dark skies, it's easy for me to head out for every major meteor shower, and many of the minor ones as well when viewing conditions are good. Here's a time-lapse video I captured at the peak of last year's Taurid meteor shower.
For best results, be sure and switch it into HD resolution using the gear icon at the lower right!
Tonight we'll have one of the more moderate meteor showers peaking, the Northern Taurids. The most active time tends to be after midnight as the earth rotates us to a point where much of the sky above us is leading the earth in its path around the sun, colliding with more of the comet debris which creates meteor showers. However, the moon will remain in the sky until roughly 1:30 am, so the best viewing times tonight will be 1:30 am until shortly after 5 am, when the sky starts getting brighter with the approach of dawn.
Here's an article with more detail on +EarthSky.org:
http://earthsky.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e56e7a92b1c5790f7343ef95a&id=60be8245d5&e=cedda9c585
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+Jeff Sullivan Thank you – have a great week!:)
Sorry the thumbnail looks weird… it seems to play fine when you go to the video in the album. Apparently "auto awesome" is a default, and as far as I can tell, I can't turn it off for the album or a single video. I didn't see any warnings or options to turn it off while I was uploading the latest video, so apparently I'd need to remember to go find and turn off that setting when creating an album.
Great shoot
Awesome!
+Essam Jaradeh
+Hicham Mouhssin
Thanks +Ashraf Gharbawi I'll be watching for it.
great work!
Simply breath-taking.
Expectacular
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Fascinating
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Thanks.Great work!
great…
chicly!
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