scotty1

Here's my UKMON report of the fireball I saw last evening. A few others witnessed it  too.

https://ukmon.imo.net/members/imo_view/report/242476

At 20.35 a bright orange/yellow meteor was seen in the north. The meteor tracked from the north east towards the plough. One of the best meteors I've seen, perhaps a September Epsilon Perseid, it's the peak time for this meteor shower. 

Anyone else see this?

must of been captured on the all sky cameras.

I think as the earth rotates during the night, earth faces headon into the meteor stream in the early hours. 

With the Perseids the radiant is higher after midnight too. 

I didn't see any last night too murky. Six on Tuesday night, also last Friday one Perseid seen

@  Simon 

Did you stack these in photoshop? and blend it with a foreground shot?. 

Lovely photo.

I don't use Clear Outside.

But judging by sat24 , Wales, West Midlands and Northern England seem to be in luck for tonight. The south east is not so good.

My brother tells me he saw a bright flash just after midnight in the east.

Perhaps another fireball, must be other people seen these. 

About 11pm tonight I was cycling out of town to try a few Perseid shots. To the south east I saw the clouds illuminated by a glow, then a flash the horizon was obscured by houses. I thought lightning, but it's not thundery tonight. The flash was a blue colour and lasted about a second. 

I'm guessing it was a Perseid fireball, or Sporadic. Only seen two other dim Perseid tonight, and the cloud has won, so time to head home.

I took this photo in my garden on Friday using my pixel 4a.

After taking a photo in astrophotography mode, the phone makes a short animation of the stacked photos. There's a satellite flare.  

In astrophotography mode the camera takes about four minutes to take one photo.  It's about bortle 5-6 here in town.

A bit of editing in phone for this pic. 

I have noticed that the centre of the photos from my pixel tend to be brighter than the edges. These are jpgs though.

Just noticed this topic, Is this still open for entries? 

Edit 

Just reading through I see the challenge is closed. 

Lovely shots here 

16 hours ago, FenlandPaul said:

Superb shots with a phone! That evening was a particularly good NLC night!

Thanks Paul 

Yes that night there were alot of NLC sightings. I had my DSLR on a small tripod taking shots too.

As it was so near the solstice, I remember the NNE horizon never got completely dark as I biked home just after midnight

Cycled three miles out of town to take a few shots of the moon and trees, stayed untill 11pm Incase Noctilucent clouds were around. There were a couple more old dead trees here before, the farmer has taken them down recently, leaving this one. It's a shame when such great photogenic features are pulled down! 

Here is  a few handheld snaps with my pixel 4a in night-shot mode, obviously you have to keep very still.

These were about eight second exposures. The pics were edited as jpgs slightly on the phone, only basic saturation, shadows. I have the RAW versions to maybe edit at some point. The phone sets the exposure automatically. The moon was behind me while looking NNE at the NLCs. 

The thing with Scotland and Wales is there is very dark skies, but often very cloudy skies. 

Those midges would deter the most avid astrophotographer too.

Lyrid meteor 4am on the 23rd

Saw four Lyrids from this good viewpoint, did not get any bright ones though.

Last night Thursday 22nd April at 21.08 I saw an orange light tracking west-east. It was north of Capella around 50 degrees above the horizon.

Traveling about 3 times faster than ISS, a low orbit satellite I'm guessing.

Had another look early this am 03.15-03.45.

One Lyrid was seen at 03.18am, just after 4am my camera captured another Lyrid.

I was tempted out last night by the clear skies. From a semi-rural location between 01.20-03.40 I saw four meteors all of them Lyrids. 

I did get one  meteor on camera but it's small. A bit disappointing, I did see a hint of milky way, and got a few nice widefield shots though. Camera lens fogged up a few times, temperature was 0C

There were a few Tawny owls hooting, and a large hare crossed in from of me on the drive home, only an 8 mile round trip. 

Hi Chefgage do you run a camera battery grip? That's alot of shots you've taken. 

What time was this? I was out taking a few widefield shots between 2100-23.30. I do seem to remember something made me glance east, but it must of burned up by then. I took a wide-angle and my camera in a lowepro rucksack and cycled a couple of miles from town to take some photos. 

When first cycling out of town it seems quite dark, until your eyes adapt. Then when you leave the shutter open for 20secs, it becomes clear it's light pollution in all directions!

Only saw one meteor in the west, it was mediocre though.

Thanks theropod 

Light pollution is increasing in my town, new houses and hotels are being built a few hundred yards from me. Luckily the skies are better 15 mins drive from town.

I hope you get clear skies soon.

I recently bought the GPS astrotracer,and it seems to work well for a simple astro setup. 

Not sure how well it performs with comets, I have a K5, I'm not familiar with the in-camera stacking, are you using a K70 body?

Here's a couple of photos from the Persied, Leonid, and Geminid meteor showers. The weather was warm and clear for the Persieds, about 25 meteors seen in two hours.

Persieds from August 12th

 

Leonid from the 18th, the peak night was cloudy.


 

Geminids from early hours of the 13th December, during two and a half hours I observed 58 Geminid meteors.

Clear skies 1-2am i spotted six Geminids, and got one on camera, Saturday night I saw a green flash in the east when it was cloudy, could've been a Geminid. 

The weather is no good for meteor spotting in the next two days hereabouts, the Ursids are due to peak Tuesday am. Does anyone bother observing the Ursids? 

Lucky cloud breaks between midnight and 3am,using sat24 cloud cover map it seemed to work well. 

Between changing batteries and suffering with headcold/vertigo I casually saw 58 meteors, a new record 4me in one night. On Saturday night I saw 12 meteors, two bright. Only a couple of meteors on camera,may have a look tonight if it's clearish.

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11 hours ago, John said:

About the same here.

Lovely again tonight. Tried this self portrait with comet but it came out rather spooky

 

This is centraaall controollll This is centraaall controollll,are you recieving over?. We are ready to transmit....  👽KORTON

From Saturday am, on the way home after a photo session, the nocties joined in.

3 hours ago, happy-kat said:

So many lovely cracking images today.

@scotty1 at what zoom level was that please? 

Edit I think that's at the 55mm end

Hi happy-kat,

The first photo was at 210mm 2.5secs exp. f5.6, iso 2500.

Second pic 300mm 1.6 seconds exp. f5.8, iso 2500  APS-C sensor.