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Between 1-4am on the 13th  I saw ten meteors, the moonlight didn't help. The brightest meteor I didn't witness as it was behind trees, but I'd set my camera up facing WNW and it captured it. A couple of years ago with a quarter moon I counted about 20 per hour. I read the Persieds are declining since the 90s, but should increase again after the next visit of the parent comet in about 100 years.

On the way home a six mile drive, the full moon was setting over a misty field on my right. On the left Venus was rising over misty fields. 

This morning the 14th,I had another look from the garden 03.15-04.00. Another four bright meteors in the NW, and NE,  one looking pale turquoise.

This one was with my phone about 2am on the 13th  

Thank you  MartinB

Thanks to everyone running the challenges, and the other participants.

Well done Paul, and Clarkpm 

02.30 -03.45 I observed six moderately bright meteors, five of those seemed to be Persieds. One in the north east, and the others were between West and Northwest.  

About 02.30 a bright satellite overhead travelled towards the South East, slightly faster than the ISS. 

Around 03.00 I was facing North West and saw a flash like distant lightning, it was  yellow, and I didn't see any meteor in that direction at the time, or any sounds later.

Sky is becoming mucky now from the N.E. with cirrus rotating around the High pressure. Must of jinxed it by charging the camera batteries. 

August 7th 03.30am pixel 4a on SLIK mini DQ tripod. Processed in phone with Snapseed. 

On 7th August I only observed three meteors over two hours. 

I captured one just before 4am, a Persied below Taurus, this was the brightest one of the night.  

11mm wide angle lens on APSC 

The cirrus clouds stayed to my south, so I couldn't get a photo of the milky way core. Overhead was quite clear after 1am, I took a few wide field shots of the milky way overhead. 

Jupiter was bright, Taurus and M45, Mars. 

Six Persieds were seen, I hoped to get one on photo, there were likely more I missed while setting up phone and camera. 

Also had a Barn Owl flying parallel with me for about 10 seconds, and crossing over from one side of the vehicle to the other. I was on a country lane doing 20mph, the barn owl was about 4 metres from the ground.

Taken a couple of miles south of town August 6th 2am. Pixel 4a in astro mode on SLIK mini pro DQ tripod with  BH100 head.

Processed in phone with Snapseed 

6 hours ago, Paul M said:

Well, you got more than I did.

but locating the comet in your image might have evaded less prepared readers!  

Thanks for adding this annotation 🧐

 i don't have any stacking software at the moment. Or even a PC! , so I thought this was quite a bad attempt. 

The hot weather will bring poor visibility I'm thinking Saharan dust/ clouds. Only for a few days though.

A lucky gestimate ware the comet should be using Vega, and pointing my camera in the general direction. I had a quick go from the garden about 1 am. This is a single shot no noise reduction converted to jpg in camera. The comet shifted behind my lilac bush so i couldn't try my 300mm zoom. The image is cropped in a fair bit.

The moon was casting a blue tone, and a few thin clouds around.

Pentax K70 + Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro lens with astrotracer on the hotshoe. 

One 20 second exp f3.2 ISO 3200 

The good news... we have a power cut! 

The bad news... power is scheduled to come back on at 23.00  

Power is back on already 💤

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 

On 11/07/2022 at 13:37, sorrimen said:

Hi all

Hoping those of you in the UK can share some experience and expertise with me. 

Ross

P.s. how do you guys go about planning trips a long drive away i.e. weather checking and moon cycle etc.? Any advice is strongly welcomed!

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. 

1 hour ago, Altocumulus said:

 

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