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26 June 2005 A slow fireball appeared while I was taking a 3-secs reference star map! Meanwhile the existing System#1 bagged 15 meteors 6 1/2hrs with 50% of them appearing from 2:00-3:00am. Here is a good one near 'C'-shaped Corona Australis [Southern Crown]( See image below) |
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Huge Fireball detected - ykchia April 13 05 (updated Apr 23'05) |
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This is the BRIGHTEST fireball captured so far on the out-of-the-window setup (watec 902H/0.95mm Avenir lens) running Mark's Skypatrol sw. The visual magnitude was estimated to be mag -7 to -10 or less. While the computer continue to record the sky till daylight, the accompanying VCR ran out of tape just 10 minutes before this fireball appearance. From the dashes, the duration was 0.64 second. Since only the ending portion of the meteor was captured, the total duration could be 2 - 3 seconds This is a slow meteor as inferred from contacting segments. This fireball transverse southern Constellations Norma and heading pass Circinus |
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| Fireball detected on 02hr 22am April 13 2005. 2- minute interval shot. This image appeared in cover page of "Meteor Trail Journal" - AMS June 2005. | General Star Field without the fireball |
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| Skymap Pro Plot showing the approx path of meteor vs background stars. | Crux or Southern Cross - added here to show the relative size of the meteor. ( in fact this is the first starting image 11:03 pm April 12) |
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| This look like a meteor trail but video replay revealed the work of a slow moving tumbling satellite (debris) with varying brightness/ magnitude. ID searched indicated catalog #94-10C (CZ 3A R/B) leaving a broken trail above. Note the sharp point flare. Apr 12 6:05am 2005 | " Zipper in the Sky ?" - A Passing bird created this zipper-like or fern leaves pattern caught in the 2minute still stack. |
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| (Apr 16 6:17am )Run of the mill - typical meteor trail - 20 dashes or 0.8 seconds duration. The tadpole-like ( or tiny tear-drop) shaped meteor traveled from right to left. Recognize the constellation? - Its the Tea-pot or Sagittarius. | A nice slow meteor caught on a wider 12mm lens 10:18pm 20-April. |
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| Iridium# 46 Satellite caught the sunlight resulting in a mag -4.0 flare in the early evening of 20 April 2005 7:49pm. Just a day later another iridium IR#49 make a similar appearance within +/- 1 degree in both elevation /azimuth. Cloud prevented me from imaging the later. | Apr 24'05, bad sky but watec 902H picked up a nice meteor crossed the FOV ( left->right) around 9pm, 47x4/100=1.8 sec. VIDEO of this meteor dragging a tiny tail. |
| June 25 2005 7:55pm. Saturn-Venus-Mercury-Pollux in Western horizon. It was a welcoming blue sky after a spate of bad weather lately. Meteor system#2 began alpha testing with the new f1.6 25mm lens and 3.4 Ghz P4 system. | |
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