Bad Astronomy -
18 Aug 2015 18:30
I know I put up some photos of the Perseid meteor shower a couple of days ago, and again Monday. But c'mon. Look at this! It was taken by astrophotographer Brad Goldpaint (who has been featured on this blog many times) on Thursday. It's a composite of photos he took at Mount Shasta in California over the course of four hours during the shower. As you can see, they all appear to radiate away from one point in the sky: The "radiant," in between the constellations of Perseus and Cassiopeia (technic...
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