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2024 Perseids starting to appear...

Started by Rick, Jul 20, 2024, 13:36:08

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Rick

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

Rick


Rick

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?

Carole

After being up imaging all night for the previous 3 nights l had an early night.  😢

Rick

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....

Rick

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


Carole

Does that include your camera?
ie don't know whether to put it into "members images". 

Rick

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.

Rick

...and talking of pretty meteor photos, check this APOD: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240816.html