Night of the Perseids

Explanation: Have you ever experienced a meteor shower? To help capture the wonder , a video was taken during the peak of the recent Perseid meteor shower above the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle , India , high up in the Himalayan mountains . Night descends as the video begins, with the central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy approaching from the left and Earth-orbiting satellites zipping by overhead. During the night, the flash of meteors that usually takes less than a second is artificially extended. The green glow of most meteors is typically caused by vaporizing nickel . As the video continues, Orion rises and meteors flare above the 2-meter Himalayan Chandra Telescope and the seven barrels of the High Energy Gamma Ray Telescope (Hagar). The 2 minute 30 second movie ends with the Sun rising, preceded by a false dawn of zodiacal light .