The Perseid Meteor Shower is underway

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The Perseid Meteor Shower is underway

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Whilst waiting for my Solar-imaging to restart, I tried a new-imaging program for my StarlightXpress Oculus - All Sky Camera tonight.

The attached images show two Meteorites where one is believed to be from the Perseid Meter Shower - currently underway.

No real adjustments were made for these images to refine them, but as the seeing was good I wanted to see how the automatic-side of this program worked and was well pleased with the results over a near three-hour period...

The debris-trail can be seen albeit very faint in the subsequent images. The times are BST (GMT+1)...
The white-line from bottom to top is my HF Radio Long-Wire antennae...

Terry
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Hi Terry,

Excellent


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Very nice, Terry. I hope you managed to catch some more!


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Post by Montana »

That's great! I hope you see lots of meteors :bow :hamster: been a bit cloudy here so far.

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Thank you Alexandra, Jochen and Rainer.

These were the first images during the initial-testing of the new-computer and cabling and also were taken through a very-good and automatic program which had just been downloaded that day.

I do anticipate some more catches during the height of the Perseid Storm, as long as those pesky clouds stay away, but as I write this, the temperature is 36-degs.C at my weather-station and I suspect up to 50-degs.C in the observatory, so whether I can do some more work there is uncertain for today...

All the Solar-cameras are known to be working through the computer, so was hoping to open the roof for some more tests etc., but we shall see.

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I tried imaging some more last-night of 17th August, but after 30-minutes clouds started to roll-in and by midnight was total cloud-cover...

https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/ ... -the-year/

CLEAR SKIES

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2nd mistook of the day.

The date should have read "7th August" - not the 17th...

Terry


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