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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**

09 August 2023

**Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus**

Image Credit & Copyright:

Petr Horálek /

Institute of Physics in Opava

This is a good week to see meteors. Comet dust will rain down on planet Earth, streaking through dark skies during peak nights of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. The featured composite image was taken during the 2018 Perseids from the Poloniny Dark Sky Park in Slovakia. The dome of the observatory in the foreground is on the grounds of Kolonica Observatory. Although the comet dust particles travel parallel to each other, the resulting shower meteors clearly seem to radiate from a single point on the sky in the eponymous constellation Perseus. The radiant effect is due to perspective, as the parallel tracks appear to converge at a distance, like train tracks. The Perseid Meteor Shower is expected to reach its highest peak on Saturday after midnight. Since a crescent Moon will rise only very late that night, cloudless skies will be darker than usual, making a high number of faint meteors potentially visible this year.

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### #Amethyst v0.72.0-APLHA: New Memory Management

This new version constantly prunes the memory used by downloaded events by deleting them from memory after use. This leads to re-downloading some replies, zaps, and reactions when the user brings an event back into view. The re-downloading will be removed once we finish our local database implementation.

- Adds aggressive memory management to avoid Out of Memory

- Fixes the Back button leaving the app issue

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