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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
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Thank you MartinB
Thanks to everyone running the challenges, and the other participants.
Well done Paul, and Clarkpm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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 💤
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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.
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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
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Possibly Starlink flaring ? although the flashes doesn't sound like satellite flares.
The Quadrantids and Geminids meteor showers, are thought to originate from Asteroids.
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1 hour ago, Altocumulus said:
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June 21st 2022
Pixel 4a on tripod
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Altocumulus and cirrocumulus,with an elongated fall streak hole above the telegraph wire.
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Possibility of UK aurora tonight
in Celestial Events Heads Up
Posted
Partly cloudy and the aurora site was on orange. I've taken some shots but there's nowt showing hereabouts. Seen a couple of Persieds, and moon rising.