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Homepage of the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project. A NASA/SETI Institute automated video surveillance of the night sky from three locations in California, Fremont Peak Observatory, Lick Observatory, and Lodi, for mapping meteor shower radiants. Principal Investigator is Dr. Peter Jenniskens.
NASA Meteor Shower Portal for the CAMS project that automates video surveillance of the night sky to map, monitor and validate the IAU Working List of Meteor Showers.
The best meteor shower in November, the Leonids, peaks tonight and tomorrow. Unfortunately, this year, dim meteors during the early-morning peak will be hard to see against a sky lit by a bright gibbous moon. Still, a few bright Leonid meteors should be visible each hour. Tomorrow's picture: double galaxy puzzler
15 sie 2023 · The peak mornings for the Perseid meteor shower in 2023 were August 11, 12 and 13. The moon was a waning crescent in the early morning sky. And by all accounts it was a great year for the...
31 sty 2024 · The meteorites, weighing 5.3 grams and 3.1 grams respectively, were finally discovered by Freie Universitaet students Dominik Dieter and Cara Weihe at around noon local time on Friday (Jan. 26),...
26 lip 2024 · The time-lapse, taken by NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick, captures a view of Earth's atmosphere just before sunrise, at which time auroras, stars and a fleeting meteor can be seen. (Image...
13 sie 2021 · Meteors need not be fireballs to be photogenic. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured this photograph of a meteor zipping across the night sky on August 11, 2021, during the peak of the Perseid shower. Ingalls shot the 30-second exposure from the summit of Spruce Mountain in West Virginia.
