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Great capture It was a lot simpler when we used film 😆 Is this Comet about Mag 7 ? I may try to get a photo when the moon eases off.

Quite warm for sleeping 27C in bedroom, so had a check for NLCs, but nothing about. ISS came over about 02.20, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Capella, and in the west Arcturus was on show from the garden. Jupiter + Mars

For cloud cover I use SAT24 The white areas are cloud. For clear skies you need grey or black tones. And the infrared setting for night. https://en.sat24.com/en/nl/infraPolair

Possibly Starlink flaring ? although the flashes doesn't sound like satellite flares. The Quadrantids and Geminids meteor showers, are thought to originate from Asteroids.

On the way home 03.20 after photographing NLCs I noticed the planets Jupiter and Saturn I think.

June 21st 2022 Pixel 4a on tripod

Altocumulus and cirrocumulus,with an elongated fall streak hole above the telegraph wire.

June 12th 2022 02.20am Pixel 4a in astro mode on tripod

This from June 21st 2022 about 1am Some red colour in the NLCs Pentax K70 +Pentax M 28mm 3.5 lens

https://www.spaceweather.com/

I was trying to find Comet 67P with a DSLR camera and tripod. I couldn't locate it, so gave up and tried a few M42 shots. I think I may of seen that meteor you captured, from here it was in the east, and heading south. It wasn't very bright from my location. I was outside between 22.30-23.20

It's clear now but I think the meteor shower peak has gone.

Monday 2nd Jan I did a bit of meteor watching, the sky was clear for a few hours. After 40mins observing from the garden, and not a single meteor I went to bed as it was 1am.

That's a beast fireball !, is your cam part of the UK meteor network? I saw one similar a few yrs back in February. It started overhead and I thought it was a firework. It silhouetted the roof in a double green flash as it burnt out. There were sightings of that fireball as far away as Scotland.

Plenty of bright clouds here too 🤯

I was looking forward to the Geminids, very cloudy here though. There was a hazy gap in the clouds for half hour before 1am. During about 25 mins I saw 4 meteors, the brightest one was through milky cloud cover and had a slight green hue. Managed to get a photo of it just to the left of Orion.

On my Stellarium mobile (free and plus version) it's in the upper claw of Cancer. I haven't checked the desktop version of Stellarium for a while.

Buying the components as separates reminds me of buying hifi. Does the star adventurerer....bolt straight onto this tripod? I have a velbon D700, but I'm thinking of getting a star adventurer 2 pro and new tripod to use with my DSLR.

Is that a retrograde orbit? Excellent captures👍

Good skills That's an awesome capture 👍

Another clear night yesterday so headed out at 3am, just a couple of miles to escape the worst LP. I was frustrated by my Astrotracer function that would not operate, the display confirmed calibration complete, but the Astrotracer would not trace, so after a dozen attempts I put the camera in manual mode. 🤬 Took a few widefield shots of comet Leonard, an occasional Geminid meteor streaked by. I then thought back remembering when I'd been at this location before to photograph comet Wirtanen, I think this was also during December with no moon around. I was able to see Wirtanen with the naked eye, but I've been unable to see Leonard with the naked eye so far. Around 5am I headed home to warm up. I set my camera tripod, and Astrotracer up in the garden, the Astrotracer now decided to function, I got 10 second exposures at 260mm without trailing. The sky had lightened a bit around 6 am, so I got my 10x50 bins quickly, and was able to see Leonard. It was a diffuse patch through the bins, that would be easy to miss, unless you knew ware to look, not helped by the arriving dawn. Friday into Saturday may offer another chance to observe Leonard if the forecast holds.

Despite having a flu like bug I stupidly stood in the garden for 2 hours 2.30-4.30 am with camera, tripod and thermals. As the sky was clear under a brief ridge of high pressure, I wanted to try and photo Leonard again. While waiting for Leonard to rise past the murky light polluted horizon, I saw three meteors, one left a white glowing trail heading from north east almost overhead. Another seemed to be a Geminid, also caught a meteor on a wide angle shot of Orion. Managed to get a bad photo of Comet 67P Churyumuv Garesimenko above the beehive cluster. About 04.30 I thought my lens had fogged up, but it was a thin veil of cirrus ejected ahead of storm Berra. Just before the sky became too milky I grabbed a few shots of Leonard and Arcturus. Lots of cloud in the forecast so I'm happy I made the effort, was feeling too rough to drive out of town. Cheers

Clouded out here, Jupiter and Venus were on show at times. Nice similar lineup tmrw evening if it's clear. I checked to see if comet Leonard was showing this evening (not sure if it's possible to see unless your on a mountain), too much cloud though.

Lovely shots I was out Thursday am also, but became so cold I couldn't focus my lens as I was shaking. Saw a few nice meteors and a couple of flashes of lightning in the distance. The windchill was nasty, and it made my zoom lens shake enough to distort the stars. Not very relaxing 🥶