PERSEIDS 2020

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PERSEIDS 2020

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PERSEID METEOR SHOWER (20200813) | Pedro RE'
OCULUS | Starlight Xpress (all-sky camera)
1/2" Format All-Sky CCD camera
1.45 Million Pixels | 1.55mm objective
30s integrations (dusk to dawn) - Moon 38%
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Hola Pedro,

Excellent


regards Rainer

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Thanks Rainer

abrazo


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Thanks Pedro was clouded out down here.


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Thanks Derek


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Hello Pedro,
Glad you got some captures of the Perseid's and thanks for showing us.

Here in S.E.England, on the night of the 11th/12th, I completed an all-night session with my StarlightXpress Oculus All-Sky-Camera (exactly the same as your one). Using the newly downloaded AllSkEye imaging program, it was a pleasure to use and watch it at work - automatically...

I captured just four definite meteors with continuous 45 second-frames and imaging between 21:30hrs & 04:00hrs/GMT, so was not so much of a shower on that night... They are faint - due to poor-seeing conditions and later in the session due to the rising-moon reflecting off of fine-haze/humidity.

In fact, I captured more over-flying aircraft than meteors - the contrail of one which lased for several minutes in the 02:13z image.

For the 12th/13th, the main expected shower, was clouded-out all night.
For the 13th/14th, only flashes of lightning from the eastern-thunderstorms would have been visible with their associated clouds...

Best Wishes and CLEAR SKIES
and less humid-temperatures too...
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Great results Terry. Perseid maximum was on 12/8 06:00h. I was clouded during that night and I could only image one day later

The Oculus camera is mainly for fireballs and not faint meteors. I was able to capture 4 bright fireballs during my imaging session

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https://www.imo.net/members/imo_live_sh ... &year=2020
This page shows a summary of automated results of the Perseids 2020 observation campaign, based on visual observations reported by citizen scientists through the online report form of the International Meteor Organization (IMO). The information on this page is generated automatically.
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Wow!! well done guys! the images are great, to even get one-four meteors is brilliant!

I do like the sound of this :)

We were clouded out all nights this week due to overnight thunderstorms so it is great to see these images :hamster:

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Thanks Alexandra

It's always clear in Portugal ;-)

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Thanks Alexandra and yeh ! - its' not fair that Pedro gets all the best weather - always...

Whilst during my flying-days and nights, I was thinking about taking a small telescope etc., up there and above the clouds and pollution, but unlike SOFIA, my likkle aeroplane was not very capable of remaining steady-enough (amongst several other factors too)... :beanie:
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Hi Pedro, Thanks so much for your explanation and the IMO Graph, where looking at it closely does explain the timings and ZHR - and where clearly the night of the 12th/13th would have been a better imaging-session for the Perseids, but only if that weather had allowed, as was hoping for a further all-night session - then..

Can I ask which program you use for Oculus to PC ? I tried several times with the SX's own program, finding it much more difficult than the one now being used as " AllSkEye" which I only downloaded on the 6th August'20 and found to be better suited for all-night imaging etc.

The automatic-frame-rates are typically 45-seconds when a dark-sky and with only about a 1-second break between each.

I've still got more to learn about other settings of this new capture-program.

The further attached image taken only an hour or so after the first/short night session of the "AllSkEye" program on the 6th August, actually surprised me and although I can't be certain which meteor-origin, but it certainly seems that this could be a fireball and an early Perseid ???

Also now that I have the two-large screens (1=Hi-res) from the professional-grade computer, it really allows for excellent viewing live, or after...

I will be looking more into the IMO website for future use and registering too, so thanks for that Pedro...

Certainly, this "All-Sky-Camera" imaging is different from Solar-imaging and at least allows for filling-in the times when one can't take images at other times of the day. Also as with the new-computer (not a laptop) complete with just about every connection (including serial) and 8xUSB's etc., etc., trying-out the Oculus was the first testing of the new set-up and other than it being far-too hot/humid to proceed with the next testing stage of remote-control via the computer for the SKYWATCHER AZ-EQ6GT Alt-Az mount (which has previously been PC operating here), then to now be able to finely-adjust the Ha and WL cameras (with the improved-help from the new large screens) - to get back to what I achieved over two-years ago and then posting such...

Best Wishes and PLEASE KEEP SAFE & WELL
Regards
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I use the original Starlight Xpress soft. It is easy to use and you can control most of the parameters

I tend to use 30s integrations most of the time. I also calibrate all images with a master dark (30s)

I use Maxim DL for calibration (pre-processing) and making the videos

I also used AllSkEye soft but it changes the integration all the time (it is not easy to calibrate the images)

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OK on those answers Pedro and thanks vm.

Perhaps I should spend some more time with the SX software now that I can see what you have captured and even do some comparisons with AllSkEye to assist my learning-curve whilst waking-up my grey-matter too.

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