Perseids pings

[geppetto]

Setup my meteor radio grabber to cover a 12 hour period between about 9pm last night

to 9am this morning.

Clear to see the shower peaking early morning....

Timelapse here, press to view

http://vid72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/hantercans/AC/TimeLapse_x264_001.mp4

[SteveNickolls]

Thanks for sharing this Philip :-) How many meteor trails did you see per hour? I've been on holiday and just returned but kept my system working while away so I need to check what it has recorded.

Cheers,

Steve

[geppetto]

Hi Steve.

Not counted yet but will sort through my images for an estimate....

Looked to be better than my grabs from last years Perseids though...

[Wyvern]

Hi Philip,

Stonking nights work there.  One of our contributors to Elan Valley Astronomy, a facebook group we co-run, observed a fireball event in the early hours of the 13th and duly reported it to SPA. They managed to find one other observer who also saw it visually to "confirm" the event, but I was delighted to see on your MP4 clip, a massive ping at the exact time our contributor recorded the event visually. - 02.51 UT or 03.51 BST.  Hope you don't mind but I've grabbed a screenshot of the event to send to him, sure he'll be delighted to see it further recorded.

Best wishes,

Les

[The Admiral]

Hi Les

The only thing is that if Philip is using the Graves transmitter I think he will only record events occurring over southern France and similar regions, not here. Interesting that there should be an event at the same time though, although it has to be said  that they were pretty frequent.

He says that he started at around 9pm. The first frame is 7.44pm, so I guess his recordings are using UT; does that tally? Unfortunately I didn't have my system running that period, as I was away. I expect Steve will have recorded any event then?

Cheers

Ian

[SteveNickolls]

Hi,

I've looked through my archive for around that time on the 13th and indeed SL provided a screenshot (see attached) of something lasting 25 seconds+. As Ian notes this would be something picked up in the arc of the GRAVES radar and not over the UK at that time. It was of course a busy period, my system recorded 105 detections in that hour but only .

Regards,

Steve

[SteveNickolls]

Hi Les,

Would the contributor to Elan Valley Astronomy be able to give additional information on the apparent direction of travel of the fireball that morning?

Best regards,

Steve

[SteveNickolls]

Hmm, after looking at your detection geppetto and mine at around the same time mine's nothing like it nor long enough unfortunately :-(

Cheers,

Steve

[geppetto]

Hi folks

My grab was from about 8.30pm to about 9.30pm.

Time scale shows local (BST) time...

Phil