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Credit & Copyright: Kevin Snair,
Creative Imagery
Explanation:
What is it?
Some surely natural phenomenon has appeared in a video that, so far,
has defied clear identification.
The above time-lapse video
was made to record
Perseid meteors above
Hopewell Rocks in
New Brunswick,
Canada late this summer.
The video,
which ran from 9:30 pm August 11 to 3:00 am the next morning,
records several meteor and
satellite streaks beyond a picturesque background.
Each image records a 30 second exposure.
At about 25 seconds into the video, however, an unusual patchy green glow appears
to cover the sky.
Possible explanations include
airglow,
aurora,
lighting from an
artificial
or
natural source, or something completely different.
This APOD is an attempt not only to solve this intriguing
sky riddle, but to measure how powerful the
APOD readership is as a
citizen-science,
collective-intelligence
engine.
If you have
insight
into what might be causing this phenomenon,
please contribute to the discussion.
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