APOD: 2021 August 15 - Perseid Rain

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price thanks for the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Perseid Rain. I have said it many times before, I will say it again, " NOBODY DOES IT BETTER FROM ABOVE" THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

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Awesome picture. Didn't see any thing. Ah well, going to bed at 2130 may have something to do with not seeing them.

Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, August 15, 2021 entitled "Perseid Rain."

This whimsical image brings to my mind memories of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid - Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

Image:
1. Perseid Rain - Image Credit & Copyright - Luo Hongyang
2. 1968 Chitty Chitty Band Bang Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes
3. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid - Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
4. 1968 Chitty Chitty bang bang 1968.j

Explanation: Comet dust rained down on planet Earth last week, streaking through dark skies in the annual Perseid meteor shower. The featured picture is a composite of many images taken from the same location over the peak night of the Perseids. The umbrella was not needed as a shield from meteors, since they almost entirely evaporate high in the Earth's atmosphere. Many of the component images featured individual Perseids, while one image featured the foreground near Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, China. The stellar background includes the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, appearing nearly vertical, as well as the planets Jupiter and Saturn on the left. Although the comet dust particles are traveling parallel to each other, the resulting shower meteors clearly seem to radiate from a single point on the sky -- the radiant in the eponymous constellation Perseus. The image captured so long an angular field that the curvature of the sky is visible in the trajectory of the Perseids.'

B. J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (with Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyA2f6hGW4

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