| June 04 Meteors & Misc -
Sky condition was 'far' from perfect. On most night - you will
be lucky to see more than a handful of stars. Most of the frames
showed clouded out sky but some meteors were caught.
To increase recording time per session I combined a x2 hour Hi-8 tape on video-walkman with another VCR with 240 minutes tape( pre-programmed to start recording on the 3rd hours onwards). With this combination I can get a total of 6 hrs of recording. Skypatrol - 4ccd version was used to crunch the 5 minutes stack in the background throughout the entire recording duration. Recognized star field was used for the starting frame to facilitate post processing position reduction if the needed. For quickie - star field ID - I use SkyMapPro version 5 to line up the starting star field and by dialing new frame time. I have yet to use sky patrol log files info. The raw still frames were then archived on CD and the tapes recycled. I watched hopelessly on June 23 as thick clouds prevented me from trying out on the newly predicted June Bootes.
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| * Star trails are caused by stacking all frames within the 5 minutes duration. | |
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| June 26 04 - 01:14 am A meteor zipped pass the FOV from bottom left to right. | June 24 04 - 11:03:24pm - A slow meteor created the closely-spaced dashes. |
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| June 25 04 -05:27:44 - Meteor and a passing satellite. | June 25 04-04:42:12 : a satellite flared in the lower right corner and a unknown object on the lower left corner |
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| Criss-crossed tracks left behind by two satellites | June 19 04 - 06:34: 36am. A bright meteor flashed through cloudy sky. |