Screenshot of Perseid shower shooting star on Macedonia skies.
A fireball from the Perseid meteor shower was captured in vivid detail, firing up the skies above the Ohrid lake in Macedonia this week. Perseid meteor shower, an annual phenomenon of comet particles burning up in the skies, peaked in the second week of August.
The Macedonian skies witnessed the fireball from the Perseid meteor shower at 1:03 am local time on Tuesday (Aug 13). It was captured in a set of cameras set up by videographer Stojan Stojanovski.
Stojanovski runs the YouTube channel Ohrid Info, which shares videos and information about Ohrid, Macedonia, famous for Lake Ohrid.
Most of these videos are from 24-hour live cameras set up in the Ohrid region.
Watch the meteor shower captured in the cameras set up by Ohrid Info across Lake Ohrid:
In the latest viral video doing the rounds on social media, we see a fireball tearing through the night sky before exploding, in Japan's Makurazaki city.
The footage since being uploaded online has gone viral. Watch the video below.
The bright fireball in this video was recorded from Spain on July 26, at 1:50 local time (equivalent to 23:50 universal time on Jule 26). The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 54,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Jaén and Albacete (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 77 km over the locality of Camporredondo (province of Jaén), moved northeast, and ended at a height of around 41 km over the locality of Villapalacios (province of Albacete).
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), and Sevilla. The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).