Starry Nights Club - SNC

COMET C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) ☄️

I drove 2 hours to get to a clear, dark sky to photograph Comet Lemmon last night!

This image includes 40 minutes of total exposure time (40 x 60-seconds) using my astronomy camera through a small telescope.

See you tonight at the Diefenbunker!

Tonight’s Star Party is a GO! The forecast for Sunday, August 31st, is for clear skies, making for perfect stargazing conditions.

We’ll be at the Carp Library (Parking Lot) - 3911 Carp Rd. from 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM. Come explore the cosmos with our members and take on the Messier Objects Bingo Challenge.

Is going to be clear in Ottawa tonight. Catch the perseid meteor shower before it's too late!

Perseids from Perseus (APOD: 2025 Aug 12)
Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Rosadziński
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250812.html

Explanation: Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Perseus. That is why the meteor shower that peaks tonight is known as the Perseids -- the meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Perseus. In terms of parent body, though, the sand-sized debris that makes up the Perseids meteors come from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet follows a well-defined orbit around our Sun, and the part of the orbit that approaches Earth is superposed in front of Perseus. Therefore, when Earth crosses this orbit, the radiant point of falling debris appears in Perseus. Featured here, a composite image taken over six nights and containing over 100 meteors from 2024 August Perseids meteor shower shows many bright meteors that streaked over the Bieszczady Mountains in Poland. This year's Perseids, usually one of the best meteor showers of the year, will compete with a bright moon that will rise, for many locations, soon after sunset.

https://www.instagram.com/krakow_astrophotography/

Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250812