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Delta Aquariid Meteor Crop, Christian Kussberger

Delta Aquariid Meteor Crop

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Delta Aquariid Meteor Crop, Christian Kussberger

Delta Aquariid Meteor Crop

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Hello astro friends.

Yesterday I was able to photograph the meteor shower Delta Aquariids from the city. I was so happy that it worked in the city with Bortle 4 skies, so I'm not sad that none of the meteor burned out green. All (about 10 pieces) were unfortunately only white lines. What the heck, I'm also happy about the small successes.

The Delta Aquariid meteor shower’s parent comet comes from the 96P/Machholz Complex. They are all related to the comet known as 96P/Machholz, which I discovered on May 12, 1986, from Loma Prieta Mountain in California. Comet 96P/Machholz orbits the sun every 5.3 years and gets eight times closer to the sun than we are. That is, its perihelion distance is 0.12 astronomical units. One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun. So this comet comes well inside the orbit of Mercury. Over the course of 4,000 years, the comet’s orbit changes in shape and tilt, so that it leaves particles throughout the inner solar system. It gets around!

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