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OCT 22 2005 am After a slight drizzle, a gap appeared in the clouds with stars shinning through. I started my video detection. Shortly Ariane 2 R/B ( 89-027B) triggered the video recording leaving a liner streak and a bight meteor passed through the FOV leaving behind a 0.9 second duration train. Watch the video ( 1.7 Mb) to see the meteor cutting right through 3.85 mag delta Col. |
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| OCT 10 2005
- A very bright fireball this morning 6:09am (25mm f0.95 lens). Watch this pretty video . A peak- hold image below traced the progression of this fireball. It probably had peaked and half of the other portion lies outside the frame. A deinterlaced single frame image was shown on the 2nd image. (The short streak is created by a passing satellite Okean-2 or 90-018A. A skymap plot matching the satellite vs background star is given here.) The bright star in the middle of the frame is gamma Vel at AZ=156d16min and Elev of 35d1min. |
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| Single de-interlaced frame below shows the straight plasma tail trailing from the almost circular nucleus. The fireball took around 0.60 second to transverse the FOV. [ the Nov in timestamp should read OCT-bug in SW fixed]. See another depiction of the progression in this image. | |
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| The UFOcapture meteor trails map of the night showing other meteors detected. See whether you can spot the reference stars ( tiny yellow dot) mapped onto background stars. | |
| OCT 03 05 - Shortly after I readjusted the lens - a bright fireball zipped pass the lower left hand corner of the image below. Watch the vide here. (3.3 Mb) | |
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| 05 Sep '05 - Slow Meteor passing through Grus. Watch the video. | |
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| From a few bitmaps extracted from the avi stream, the meteor progression can be seen below from a-> g. | |
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AUG 31 - Close to 1 am a meteor transverse
the entire length of FOV dragging a fine thin tail behind the
rod-shaped nucleus. See the imprint
of the thin tail ( 4.5Mb wmv) after the meteor had passed.  |
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| First night out testing a 50mm lens video lens on a slower 2.0 GHz pc. LM jumped to +7.0 mag. An example of the high speed meteor seen below. ( 5 Mb wmv) | |
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| Here is a much slower but brighter meteor. View the nice meteor in this <5Mb wmv file. | |
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| Aug 19 '05 . Ok - the image below is sat related. Cosmos 1271 rocket body make a good pass towards M7. | |
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| Perseids '05 Aug 13 '05- Close to 3:30am on Saturday am I walked to a nearby field hoping to 'holes' through the clouds in the northern sky . However the only visible starry-like object was the reddish Mars, no other stars were even seen! I stayed on for 10-15 minutes longing for a bright fireball to boast up my morale. No luck... I headed home and set up a the 2 video lens outside my window remembering from past experiences that perseids can appear all over the sky. True enough - a bright ( imaging the brightness if the sky was clear) fireball appeared shortly and I rushed to my pc to check. OK - this was detected and shortly another fast perseid zipped by. Soon fatigue overtaken me and I let the x1 tape running its own course and the other pc continue to execute UFOCapture V2 magic... What have you seen ? Note the rather large and bright nucleus and view the train left behind in this short movie of the fireball ( uploaded 8/21/05) | |
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| (TOP) A nice pretty meteor transverse the FOV crossing the tail/Sting of Scorpion. UFOCaputre produced a stacked image from the whole duration of the avi capture. See for yourself this pretty thing in this 4.9 Mb WMV file. | |
| (BELOW) A few single frames were extracted from the avi and stacked using IRIS to show the meteor's ablation development. Some material flows can be seen a short distance from the nucleus.. | |
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| (Below) Aug 8 05 - close to 8:55pm I saw this slow tadpole-shaped meteor in the b/w monitor as I was adjusting the piece of newspaper hanging at the window to block my study light from affecting the ccd. | |
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| (Below) - A meteor zipped pass the 'C' shaped Southern Crown -Corona Australis CrA |
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