Circumpolar and Meteor

by: L.Laveder/Novapix
Reference: a-pas01-00017
Date: 2007-09-23

By pointing a camera towards the north at night, we can record the paths of stars which never set. They appear to circle the apparent position of the Earth's axis of rotation projected on the sky. On this 1 hour exposure, a shooting star appears near the pole star.

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