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Astronomy => Alerts! Questions? Discussions... => Topic started by: Rick on Jul 20, 2024, 13:36:08

Title: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Jul 20, 2024, 13:36:08
My meteor cameras have seen their first Perseids of this year. Here's the orbital analysis of one of them:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2024/orbits/202407/20240719/20240719_234547.552_UK/index.html
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 02, 2024, 12:32:15
...and it's not just Perseids at this time of year. Here's a rather pretty alpha Capricornid:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2024/orbits/202408/20240802/20240802_015618.044_UK/index.html
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 13, 2024, 11:12:02
The last couple of nights have been good for Perseids and aurora. Two good spells of auroral activity last night, one around 2230 UTC and one around 0040 UTC, both lasting quite a while. Anyone catch any good images?
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Carole on Aug 13, 2024, 20:31:40
After being up imaging all night for the previous 3 nights l had an early night.  😢
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 13, 2024, 23:28:44
Last night one of my cameras caught just under 400 meteor trails and the other managed just over 300. My normal daily track-stack generating run, which usually takes an hour or two, has just ended, having taken something over 12 hours....
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 17, 2024, 18:28:11
The Perseids have produced some pretty meteors this year, but they certainly don't have a monopoly. Here's a pretty sporadic caught by at least twenty cameras last night:

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2024/orbits/202408/20240816/20240816_211729.830_UK/index.html

Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Carole on Aug 17, 2024, 19:53:08
Does that include your camera?
ie don't know whether to put it into "members images". 
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 17, 2024, 20:56:19
There is an image from one of my cameras in there, but the prettiest ones are not from my camera, which is at least partly why it's here. Generally, if the image is mine then it'll usually be in the OAS gallery.
Title: Re: 2024 Perseids starting to appear...
Post by: Rick on Aug 17, 2024, 21:06:43
...and talking of pretty meteor photos, check this APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240816.html