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Does anyone have a link to a good graphic or animation which demonstrates why meteors are better after midnight with the Earth spinning into the meteoroid stream? I can't find one and to be honest I'm struggling to get my head around it. James
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Has anyone been paying attention to the Orionids? How are they shaping up? I am going out for a nice long observing session tonight, conditions are great and I am heading to a dark site. I talked my girlfriend into coming along to watch meteors in between telescope objects. I was just curious if there has been much of a show, numbers-wise?
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For the first time in ages I've been able to see the meteor shower as it's been clear for the first time in years from where I've been. Even got the missus to finally see a meteor! As I went inside for a few minutes I also swear I heard an object hitting something hard and then our hedge move. I know it's pretty unlikely to be a meteorite but had a quick look but didn't see anything I reckon I'll have to have a gander in the morning but I wont count my chickens! Did anyone else get a chance to see any meteors?
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I was out taking some shots last night, testing some different exposure times contra iso settings, just shooting at random parts of the sky. I set the camera for a 6400 ISO, 15 second exposure, and about halfway through the shot, a meteor (fireball) falls through the sky almost straight above me, covering about 50% the distance of the sky lasting around 2 seconds I think. It even showed fragments falling off of it and burning separately. Not quite big enough to be considered a bolide but still many times brighter than your usual shooting stars! Even seeing that with my eyes was astonishing, as it only counts like the 3rd fireball I've ever seen, but then I just prayed that my camera actually caught it, as it was pointing at the exact same part of the sky! And it did! Unfortunately without the part where the fragments fell of which happened left of the image..! For some it might look like a simple image, or something similar as to when the space station covers the sky, but this was a biiig deal for me! And if you guys aren't impressed, then at least tell/show me some of your best visual stories or pictures you've captured! Also the meteor burned with a slightly greenish glow, which some of you might be able to make guesses of its composition.- 19 replies
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Hello, last night was the second clear night in a row. Quite rare here in Ireland! I took my telescope out side to set it up when I noticed something amazing! I inserted my 25mm eyepiece into my LCM to focus it ( I haven't even moved the tube yet ) when I noticed I placed my telescope bang on in the direction of the Orion Nebula! It was only a couple of arc seconds of the center. I was amazed but since I was looking at the Orion nebula I figured I should start my two star align with a star in Orion, so the two stars I aligned were Rigel and Deneb since they are nearly polar opposites at the moment. Also, when I was trying to center Rigel in my finder scope, a dazzling meteor fell through the atmosphere passing through Orion's belt, followed by another passing near Betelgeuse and another near Gemini. For the hour and a half I was outside I seen about 10 meteorites, very cool! I started my session by continuing to look for Messier objects I can see to add to my list.The objects I observed last night were Messier 35 in Gemini, 36 and 37 in Auriga, 50 in Monoceros and 67 in Cancer. All beautiful open star clusters. I then observed some regular stars such as Sirius, Meissa, Procyon, and Beta Canis Minor. Sadly even though it was clear and I live atop a hill, I was aware of a huge fog devouring my quaint, quiet town. And by 12:35 AM this fog reached me and the only thing I could see was my telescope and my hands. I could barely see the neighbors house it was that thick! But I enjoyed my night and I hope you enjoyed reading. Clear skies Adam -
Did anyone catch this? 'Green flash' meteor sightings across Britain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35829815
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Hello, This is my first post on Stargazer's website. I live in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and am an avid (wannabee) star gazer. I have a schedule of the meteor showers saved on my desktop so I know when to look at the sky. The North Taurids meteor shower occurred last week and I went to a secluded area to watch above. As I sat outside with my camera, which is a Canon Rebel XTI, a meteor had a trajectory that was just miles above me. Then, I heard a loud boom in the woods surrounding the lake just outside of Hermitage. Just curious if anyone got a picture of this occurrence or if anyone else experienced this same situation. Thanks, John
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From the album: Meteors
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The peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Some meteors expected to be visible between 19th and 25th April. The Moon will be at First Quarter so will interfere in early evening. ZHR of around 10 from a dark site with the peak at 4am.
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Hello everyone, It has been a while since I posted here. I was waiting for my telescope but unfortunately my friend could not bring it along from UK Anyway since that happened I decided to continue my search for a telescope and in the meanwhile I decided to get myself a nice binocular and carry on until I get hold of a good scope. Perhaps, I could continue with a bino for some time and gain experience and then if the passion doesn't die I can get a scope. Anyway, I went to a hill station where my father-in-law has a couple of flats (at a height of 6,000 feet) and so they spend every summer there. I usually go for a few nights with my wife and kids for vacation and then come back. I had noticed in previous years that the sky is a delight in the balcony of that flat if clear. However, in those days I looked up at the stars and well that was that. So this year I wasn't able to wait to go there and observe it rather than seeing it like before. It mostly rained however I had two clear nights to myself and I cant tell you how lucky I was in those two nights. I enjoyed myself a lot and learnt and also thought quite a lot. I also have a couple of questions from my first night that I would like to ask in order to ascertain my understanding. Anyway, during the first night I did not have the binocular that my father-in-law has as I had forgotten about it. So I just went there and saw things and tried to make sense out of them. I knew it was a pre-night to the Perseid peak but I had no idea that I will see the shower with my naked eye and that it would be that much. I saw the shower with my boy in my lap who would point out at every flash with excitement. However, there are my questions: 1. I saw the shower where different (shooting stars) kept coming. they were like little balls of fire having a head a trail of light following them. But then I also saw something else during the same time and it happened more than the shower. I saw little flashes of light in the sky. One after the other and there were about a dozen of them coming from the same part of the sky more or less. Those were like little tiny dots of lights igniting at a spot and then going out in a second or less. However, they did not have any trail or streak in the sky they were like little spots that would shine in a spot and then go out. what were those ??? 2. I also spotted a satellite that was a very bright and moving very fast. However, some website suggested that it was the ISS. How does one differentiate between a satellite and the ISS ? How to know what you are beholding ??? It was during the next night that I remembered the binoculars. When I got them from him those were a 12x25 not that good but not bad either. So I gazed at the moon and enjoyed its majestic beauty. Seeing the moon not as a disk and as a spherical object with your own eyes have n effect on you ... it was just lovely. Then I also spotted the Cassiopeia and observed it for some time. And then in the end the last thing was the seven sisters in the Pleiades and that was mesmerising. the distinctive question mark in the sky that made me think and contemplate on many things including, on a lighter note, the fact that I observed the sky and had questions in my mind but the sky responded with a question mark telling me that there is more that there are things even they don't know of I shall be writing an article about it soon. cheers, Sidd
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Hi, is anyone here meteor-watching using Software Defined Radios ? I read that, on average, only 84K meteors that weigh over 10g enter our atmosphere each year, but watching my favourite UK monitoring site, there's been 100s every hour for a while now. If it was 100 on average per hour for a year that would be about ten times the quoted figure above (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/75-our-solar-system/comets-meteors-and-asteroids/meteorites/313-how-many-meteorites-hit-earth-each-year-intermediate) I see that their frequency also depends on various other factors, but the American Meteor Society reports an increasing number over the past decade (http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_fireball_stats/). I suppose there are also a growing number of monitoring stations so there are more reports. I bought an SDR but have yet to build the right sort of aerial for meteor-detection (as well as mount it without complaints from neighbours!). Anyone else been doing any of this ? Cheers, Gary.
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Hi all, i just spotted by chance the 2nd "fireball" / bright meteor in my life at 20:52 CET , dark orange with bright grey trail, no sound, east-northeast to east southeast, elevation 10-20 degrees ... Yay ! Unfortunately , no picture, just human observation while taking the dog out . PS.: might have been a "november orionid", they peaked yesterday.-
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There's something you don't see every day. I was collecting Ha with my Zuiko 50mm/Atik460 combo tonight, and this appeared on one of the 600s sub-exposures. I didn't see it, but it must have been bright - and presumably have a bit of ionised hydrogen about it (from the meteor and/or the atmosphere). This is the stacked frame with the meteor frame integrated on the stack. -
captured during a 8 hour session in the early hours of Sunday morning looking across Llyn Dinas on a Canon 7D and Samyang 8mm fisheye lens. I've got another 2000 images to go through lol
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Captured on a 5D MkII shooting 20 second exposures. The 'smoke' from the dying Geminid meteor dispersed over a period of 6 minutes. The initial meteor trail was at 02:11 UTC on 13/12/12 -
49 images and 20 darks taken on an eq6 mounted 5D MKII and 24mm lens, 15 second exposures @ f4 iso800. A quick and dirty process through DSS and CS5, next time I'll push it to iso1600 to get more data in the images. I'm not sure due South looking at the Milky way is the best view to get the meteors because of the satellite traffic in the region, it's like the Olympic traffic lane in rush hour.
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My first attempt at imaging a meteor and quite chuffed with the result. Broken cloud up until around 0030 then total cloud cover. Visually I spotted 9. Out of 110 frames this is the only meteor I captured and pity about those damn clouds covering Orion! Nikon D5100, Samgyang 14mm on a Star Adventurer, 40secs at f4, ISO800 -
Did anyone see an Orange/Mauve fireball last night, maybe around 10. I was so excited I forgot to look at my watch. Sadly I wasn't filming in the right direction. It must have been about NE to SE in Southern England.
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These are some photos I took of 41P/T-G-K on the night of March 29. I never ran them through much of a post editing and are grainy and no noise reduction done. They were all taken with my Nikon D7100 with 50-300mmZoom lens. All photos have been cropped from originals. #1) f5.6 52.5 seconds ISO 6400 50mm #3) f5.6 44.9sec ISO5000 195mm #2) I left this for last because it is so unique. I think the comet was entering the atmosphere, then just as it was about to eclipse 41P, it skipped out and then was pulled back into the atmosphere. f5.6 42.6 sec ISO6400 78mm Tonight I'm going to mount my Nikon to my Celestron 8SE and do some photography of 41P. I am using Stellarium to control the scope and digiCamControl for the Nikon. I'm new at this so I'm hoping I will be as lucky tonight as I was for these shots. BTW, the time between photo 1 and photo 2 was just seconds apart. -
From the album: Meteors
Perseid early on 13 August -
Here are videos of two very fast, bright meteors taken on my all sky camera in the early hours of this morning. Equipment used was a Samsung SDC-435 video camera with a 2.1mm lens. Both meteors are in the top left (North eastern) portion of the videos. -
Here are a couple of videos of meteors I captured on the night of 21/22 April and 22/23 April. All captured with Samsing SDC-435 low light video camera with 2.1mm lens.
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Just noticed this article in todays Guardian re. the lunar impact that took place in September 2013. Not heard of it before. Is the impact site and crater viewable, or, at 40 metres diameter, is it just too small?
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With only a small window of the sky, (due to camping in a small forest clearing) which was basically a limited view of the "Summer Triangle", I was very fortunate to witness five meteors within five minutes of each other close to midnight on Saturday/Sunday 18th/19th August. Knowing the peak of the Kappa Cygnids was the previous night I was hoping to spot maybe the odd one, however it was quite a spectacle to get a small shower display - particularly as once the first was spotted, interest from other people gained, and almost instantly their sudden interest was rewarded. Not all the meteors appeared to have the same radiant, but as all appeared within the small section of sky it seemed likely they were Kappa Cygnids. After the racy five minutes, I was able to just view the spectacle of a fabulous dark sky with the Milky Way visible and rather a lot of satellites buzzing by for the next hour or so whilst I polished off some excellent wine on the comfortable warm night by a softly burning campfire! No better way to witness one of the best displays on Earth.
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