Time-lapse images reveal Perseid meteors around the globe

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Time-lapse images reveal Perseid meteors around the globe
by Brooks Hays
Melbourne, Fla. (UPI) Aug 18, 2016

The night sky captured by the SkySentinel Allsky Camera Network. Images are composites of the Perseids as captured by dozens of cameras around the country, including the Melbourne campus Florida Institute of Technology; Albuquerque, New Mexico and Newberry, Fla., near Gainesville. Also included is a map of current node locations, from where data is transferred to Florida Institute of Technology�s Geospace Physics Lab for analysis. (image from Albuquerque, NM). Image courtesy Florida Institute of Technology.

New imagery reveals what the Perseids looked like from all over the world. Student scientists created a composite of streaking meteors, building a global map of the meteor shower.

The SkySentinel project features a global network of wide-angle cameras pointed skyward. During the recent peak of the Perseid meteor shower, the cameras captured hundreds of shooting stars.

The SkySentinel project is managed by students at the Florida Institute of Technology. Currently, there are 58 SkySentinel Allsky cameras positioned in the United States and Canada. A few dozen more are located in India, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil.

All of the cameras are constantly recording astronomical data and uploading it to a server at Florida Tech's Geospace Physics Lab, allowing researchers to go back an study events they missed or couldn't see from their position on Earth.

The 2016 Perseid meteor shower was one of the most active in several years, as a large section of debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle was pulled into Earth's path by Jupiter's gravity.

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