The plan was to capture a picturesque part of the sky that was hosting an unusual guest. The result included a bonus — an additional and unexpected guest. The beautiful background features part of the central band of our Milky Way galaxy on the far left, and the colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi in the image center. The unusual guest, a dimmed and reddened Moon on the right, was expected because the image was taken during last week’s total lunar eclipse. The timing had to be right because the Moon — both before and after eclipse — would be so bright it would overwhelm the background. The unexpected guest was the bright meteor across the image center. The fleeting meteor streak was captured on only one of the 10 consecutively-captured deep-field images from La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands, while the eclipsed Moon image was taken immediately afterwards with the same camera and from the same location. The next total lunar eclipse — also quite expected — will occur in early November.?

計(jì)劃是捕捉天空中一個(gè)風(fēng)景如畫的部分，那里有一位不同尋常的客人。結(jié)果另外得到了獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)——一位額外的意外客人。最左側(cè)銀河系中央帶的一部分是美麗的背景，圖像中心是五顏六色的蛇夫座星云。這張不尋常的照片是在上周的月全食期間拍攝的，因此人們預(yù)計(jì)這張照片的右側(cè)是一個(gè)暗紅色的月亮。時(shí)間必須是正確的，因?yàn)樵率城昂蟮脑铝炼紩?huì)非常明亮，會(huì)淹沒背景。意外的客人是穿過圖像中心的明亮流星。在西班牙加那利群島拉帕爾馬連續(xù)拍攝的10張深場圖像中，只有一張捕捉到了短暫的流星條紋，而月蝕圖像隨后立即用相同的相機(jī)在相同的位置拍攝。下一次月全食也很有可能發(fā)生在11月初。