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Day 231: weekly roundup in pictures and video

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Aira IdrisAira Idris|10:00 UK time, Friday, 19 August 2011

Distance travelled ~ 592'816'000 km

Sunset SurpiseImage taken by Wayne Karberg, August 16 in the Laramie Valley in Wyoming. "Several minutes before sunset (about 8:00 PM MST). This is the view east from my driveway. Rainbows occur frequently here due to the vast open sky and broken weather that passes over the Great Laramie Plains."


August Lunar
Full moon August 14, 2207hrs. Image taken by Dave Armstrong, Durham England. "I had the dogs out for their final walk of the day and spotted how beautiful the moon was and amount of light that was coming off it, on arriving back at the house grabbed the camera and tripod and set up in the garden and took approximately half a dozen shots"


perseid meteor shower Perseid meteor shower. Image taken by Mavroudakis Fotis, 13 August over the mountains of Drama, a city in the Northern part of Greece . "This image is a stack of images which I took from 01:00 am to 02:00 am."

And lastly, this video which was uploaded by weathernut27 of the snow brought about by a strong Antarctic storm over New Zealand, spreading over northern areas such as Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland, where this extent of snow hasn't fallen in decades...

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