A fireball from the Perseid meteor shower was captured in great detail, lighting up the sky over Lake Ohrid in Macedonia this week. The Perseid meteor shower, an annual phenomenon in which comet particles burn up in the sky, reached its peak in the second week of August.
The fireball of the Perseid meteor shower was visible in the Macedonian sky on Tuesday (August 13) at 1:03 a.m. local time. It was captured by a camera set up by videographer Stojan Stojanovski.
Stojanovski runs the YouTube channel Ohrid Info, which publishes videos and information about Ohrid in Macedonia, which is famous for its Lake Ohrid.
Most of these videos come from 24/7 live cameras in the Ohrid region.
See how the meteor shower was recorded by the cameras set up by Ohrid Info at Lake Ohrid:
“The meteor video is incredible. We see 7 seconds of a falling meteor in the video. I love today’s technology,” Stojanovski was quoted as saying by Space.com.
Stojanovski set up the camera network in 2018 together with local hotels and businesses to promote tourism in the Ohrid region of Macedonia.
“I hope the 180-degree point-of-view cameras will capture more meteors in the future,” Space.com quoted Stojanovski as saying.
What is the Perseid meteor shower?
The Perseid meteor shower is a collection of shooting stars that pass by Earth every year. They are debris made of ice and space rock from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which flew past Earth in 1992.
The Perseids are clearly visible from mid-July to late August, mainly in the sky over the Northern Hemisphere.
The highest activity this year was recorded between August 11 and 12.
(with contributions from agencies)
