Perseid Meteor Shower from Mantario Lake, Manitoba, Canada, looking North

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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2009

A sequence of 438 images taken between 11:30PM and 1:30AM on the night of Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Each image is a 15 second exposure taken with a Canon 20Da and a 15 mm lens. The camera is pointing North overlooking Mantario Lake.

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  • what does Perseid mean

  • @628blade It is the name of the meteor shower. It means the meteors appear to be coming from a point in the constellation of Perseus.

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  • I was in Winnipeg during the shower, and even with the light pollution, it was wonderful.

  • NICE

  • beautiful

  • And a bit of aurora borealis to boot. Awesome!

  • Brilliant. Nice clear skies there! Unfortunately it was cloudy here.

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