Here's a rough-and-ready shot of one of the Perseids caught on camera during the current shower.
Posts tagged 'meteors'
Observing Report 13th-14th December 2020* (Geminid meteors)
Confined to base but not to barracks, so spent a few nights in the obsy during the Geminid meteor shower.
Here's a composite of meteors snapped on the morning of the 14th.
Click the pic to see a bigger version.
Observing Report 11th-18th November 2018 (Leonid meteors)
Not the best Leonid shower I've ever seen... 665 pics... only one meteor caught on camera.
Click the pic to see a bigger (but not necessarily better) version.
Observing Report 9th-10th and 10th-11th August 2018 (Perseid meteors #2)
Further to my previous report, here's a composite pic including all of the session's Perseids, sporadics and Iridium flares. Just like before, you can click it to see a resized version:
Observing Report 9th-10th and 10th-11th August 2018 (Perseid meteors)
Typical British weather... week upon week of sunny days and clear nights, and then, when it comes to the peak of the Perseid meteor shower (12th-13th August), it all goes to shit.
In anticipation of a weekend of crap weather I'd spent the last couple of clear nights trying to get some pics of the early arrivals, here's one of the best that I caught on camera. Feel free to click it to see a resized version:
Last light was a rainy and cloudy non-starter, and the next two nights are slated to be just as bad. The show, which so far elsewhere has been the best for many years with higher-than-expected rates and no Moon-glare, will be more-or-less over by the time the skies clear here.
Observing Report 22nd-23rd April 2018 (More Lyrid-ish meteors)
From the second session of observing the 2018 Lyrid meteor shower. 365 pics, only one with decent trails, and I'm fairly sure that they too weren't from true Lyrids as they weren't "pointing back" to the Lyrid radiant.
Here's the pic, again the bottom-edge is more-or-less East and the top edge is up near the zenith. The blurry coloured mess near the bottom-edge is a short section of the Milky Way . Click it to see a resized version:
