All-Sky recordings

[ChrisLX200]

I'll use this thread to dump links to any (possibly interesting) previous nights All-Sky records. This is last night's offering 10-11th Aug dusk until about 2:30am and 2 days prior to the Perseid peak. Not many Persieds recorded, perhaps half a dozen and jsut one bright one. Loads of other stuff going on though, mostly satellites, Iridium flares, ISS fly-overs, and of course a few aircraft. This vid was recorded using FireCapture @ 3sec frames continuously, the post-processed using VirtualDub to 20fps and H264 CODEC, then crippled by YouTube by further compression...(sorry about that). Best to watch in a darkened room in full screen with HD selected :-)

Date and Time can be seen top-left and is accurate to +/- 3milliseconds.

The one bright Perseid at 23.19.05

ChrisH

[ChrisLX200]

Bright fireball from last night, I wouldn't like to attempt to estimate the magnitude but the glowing ionisation trail lasted for at least 30 seconds (as a video record). I'll upload the overnight video later.

These are three x 3sec frames in sequence, you can see ionisation trail that was left behind.

ChrisH

[Ruud]

When the neighbours go to sleep the sky comes to life.

There's a lot going on. Thanks for the video. It's great.

[ChrisLX200]

The video from last night, about 6hrs timelapse in around 5minutes - for sky gazers on the go!

ChrisH

[Macavity]

These are great! (Like me, you have "restless" neighbours?)

[ChrisLX200]

These are great! (Like me, you have "restless" neighbours?)

I certainly do, my back garden is certainly no Dark Site :-(

ChrisH

[ChrisLX200]

So this was the night of the Peak of the Perseids, and against expectations it was clear all night with the exception of a slow-moving but thin band of cloud which passed over at one point. There were quite a few meteors recorded but to be honest, after all the hype I was expecting more. Things were still popping as dawn broke and maybe we missed the most intense part of the shower. Below are a few example screen caps, and at the bottom the all-night video, this time slowed down a little to 15fps instead of 20fps (which means the whole thing lasts some 8minutes or so).

This was the star of the show, and it left a glowing train lasting 30secs or so:

But there were many others too:

ChrisH

[laudropb]

Very nice animations and images. Thanks for posting.