Tonight I decided to put my camera out in an attempt to do some time lapse photography of the stars. It started off good but quickly became cloudy and not too interesting. Although when going through my images I got to make the video I came across one I really liked. It's of the constellation Pegasus and going through it is a meteor. I checked for satellites for my location and the time the picture was taken and found none in the area at the time. Not only is there the bright, yet short meteor, but you can also just make out a fuzzy galaxy to the left in the picture. That galaxy is Andromeda, and I was hoping to get it going across the sky tonight. If you're having trouble spotting Andromeda in the picture look to the left of the picture for 3 stars going up slightly curved. At the top of those three stars you can just make out Andromeda.
Edit: I have just found out that there is a meteor shower from September 25 to December 6 called the Andromedids. The radiant is, you guessed it, in Andromeda which means this short bright meteor is part of that meteor shower. Currently this meteor shower at it's peak (November 14) is extremely weak with an estimated 3 meteors per hour. These meteors come from associated comet 3D/Biela which broke up and possibly caused a large outburst back in 1872 and 1885. More on the Andromedids here for a more detailed explanation on the meteor shower.
Also something else neat about the Andromedids. In 1885 the first meteor ever photographed was an Andromedid by Ladislaus Weinek in Prague. Info from this link on Google Books, from the book Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets. The part I think is the coolest is that this is MY first picture of a meteor ever taken, which just so happens to be an Andromedid. Pretty neat stuff!
Edit: I am now only including the time-lapse from the picture above since having all 3 available here made the blog load really slow.
Edit: I have just found out that there is a meteor shower from September 25 to December 6 called the Andromedids. The radiant is, you guessed it, in Andromeda which means this short bright meteor is part of that meteor shower. Currently this meteor shower at it's peak (November 14) is extremely weak with an estimated 3 meteors per hour. These meteors come from associated comet 3D/Biela which broke up and possibly caused a large outburst back in 1872 and 1885. More on the Andromedids here for a more detailed explanation on the meteor shower.
Also something else neat about the Andromedids. In 1885 the first meteor ever photographed was an Andromedid by Ladislaus Weinek in Prague. Info from this link on Google Books, from the book Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets. The part I think is the coolest is that this is MY first picture of a meteor ever taken, which just so happens to be an Andromedid. Pretty neat stuff!
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