Petr Horálek Captures Meteor Above Kitt Peak's 3.5-Meter Telescope
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Updated · Space.com · Jun 5
Petr Horálek Captures Meteor Above Kitt Peak's 3.5-Meter Telescope
2 articles · Updated · Space.com · Jun 5
Summary
Petr Horálek photographed a meteor streaking over Kitt Peak National Observatory in southern Arizona, framing the flash above the WIYN telescopes on Kitt Peak.
The image shows the WIYN 0.9-meter dome at left and the 3.5-meter telescope at right, with Orion, Canis Major and red emission nebulae visible behind the meteor.
Horálek, a NOIRLab audiovisual ambassador, caught a phenomenon that typically lasts only a moment or two, making such a sharply composed meteor image unusually difficult.
Kitt Peak National Observatory is part of NSF's NOIRLab and sits in the Quinlan Mountains of the Sonoran Desert on land of the Tohono O'odham Nation.