Timelapse video of the aurora of 10th/11th May 2024 as seen from Dursley

[Rick]

I've uploaded timelapse videos of the aurora captured on the night of 10th/11th May 2024 by the automatic cameras I have watching the sky from home to YouTube, here:

 https://youtu.be/92wchZJUOr0 is from my north-facing colour sky camera
 https://youtu.be/V89UxI9MSFI is from my north-east facing meteor camera
 https://youtu.be/t5BvsAKdKqY is from my north-north-west facing meteor camera

There's a bonus fireball in one frame at about 0:52 in that last video.

Irritatingly, the colour video is a bit jumpy in places, because the camera seems to get stuck from time to time.

The two meteor cameras are, obviously, tweaked for capturing meteors, and the aurora was just a bit of serendipity. The sky camera is mainly for weather-watching, but managed to catch something of the aurora. I should look into tweaking it a bit to see whether I can get a better view of things like aurora after dark.

The aurora did cause the meteor detection cameras a bit of difficulty, but a few meteors got caught through the light show, like this one:

 https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2024/orbits/202405/20240510/20240510_231954.364_UK/index.html

[Carole]

Absolutely stunning Rick.

I need to speak to Raf as to how I can get one of these videos onto the members images.  If all else fails I will do some screen shots

Carole

[Rick]

I can send you the *.mp4 files to save you fighting with video downloads from YouTube, if that helps...

[Carole]

That would be helpful Rick can't show them all but just send the best one (or two)

Carole