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I had lots of pings and at times several pings on a continuous signal. Still got to see what happened last night. Work to day so will check the screen shots tonight.
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Japanese Fireball
wxsatuser replied to westmarch's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
There was a recent daylight one over New York state, seen from Toronto to Virginia a loud sonic boom was heard. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mysterious-explosion-heard-over-central-ny-caused-by-meteor -
Help with DSS stacking
wxsatuser replied to Doze166's topic in Imaging - Image Processing, Help and Techniques
If you are using the Autosave tif in DSS it will be very dark and will need stretching. -
Understanding GRAVES Meteor Events
wxsatuser replied to PhotoGav's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
Try these as well http://www.ars-electromagnetica.de/robs/ https://ea4eoz.blogspot.com/2015/05/determining-radiant-of-meteor-using.html -
Understanding GRAVES Meteor Events
wxsatuser replied to PhotoGav's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
The last image of the group has a satellite reflection. -
You could try GB3VHF on 144.430MHz, it's in Kent near Wrotham and one beam is aimed 288degs. I would think it should be audible near you if you have reasonable site. It is GPS locked so should be very stable and bang on frequency. Tune USB to 144.429MHz and you can adjust the carrier to that frequency. As well as a carrier/morse you may hear some JT65B signals. Morse starts every odd minute past the hour for 13seconds and JT65B every even minute past the hour for 48secs.
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California Nebula at 135mm
wxsatuser replied to FenlandPaul's topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
It's not quite right to the left, looks like slight coma top left even in the unprocessed stack. These Samyangs can vary a bit, mine has a very slight odd corner but not as bad as that. It's a modded camera so may be something not so perfect about that. -
Forget about using this lens at f1.8, to many abberations. Stop it down and they might improve.
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Deep Sky Stacker stacking problem
wxsatuser replied to Oisinmcc16's topic in Getting Started With Imaging
Most likely because the stars are not round, your stars are slightly elongated, corner ones have coma. DSS needs to find at least 8 good stars common to each of the frames. -
GRAVES beacon too strong in meteor echoes detection
wxsatuser replied to morinmau's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
Not at the moment, just weekends. Most of my time and the computers time is spent running hamradio digital modes on HF and VHF. When nothing is doing on VHF I put the receiver on GRAVES. I do have two spare SDRplay RSP1As and I will try and get one doing 24/7 GRAVES shortly. -
GRAVES beacon too strong in meteor echoes detection
wxsatuser replied to morinmau's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
I do receive it direct most of the time, which is surprising with 400feet of chalk in the way. Yesterday afternoon it was completely missing apart from a few seconds here and there. Most of the time as well as direct signal I get many pings and a few short bursts, occasionally some nice long bursts. Have had many satellites like ISS, and Moon reflections a few times. -
GRAVES beacon too strong in meteor echoes detection
wxsatuser replied to morinmau's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
Hi Maurizio, I suppose it's where you are in relation to the aircraft. I can receive GRAVES direct but not all the time and I get the diverging/parallel lines. BTW I am located in IO90uv UK south coast my call is G1HWY. -
GRAVES beacon too strong in meteor echoes detection
wxsatuser replied to morinmau's topic in Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy
The double traces and diverging ones are more than likely aircraft returns.