Astronomy every Thursday
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100 meteors were detected by the meteor group in February 2019, 70 of these were sporadic and the remainder from minor showers.
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A cloudy January resulted in a small number of meteors detected, 97 in total, most sporadic, but we did detect 20 Quadrantid's and identified meteors from 17 different showers.
If you want to join in and help with the observations please contact Janice.
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Our automated meteor camera and meteor team, detected 239 meteors in December, despite the cloudy weather, 60 of these were identified as part of the Geminid meteor shower. The brightest meteor detected was a magnitude of -1.8. During December we identified meteors from 22 different showers, but the geminids was by far the strongest.
Below is a video of the meteors detected by the meteor camera operated by the society, in December 2018, the meteors are ordered by brightness based on analysis by UFO analyser.
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The society observed 210 Meteors linked to 32 different showers in November using the semi-automated meteor camera
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October saw us identifying 308 meteors from 32 different showers, the October Draconids and the Orionids being the most interesting.
The brightest meteor was -3.7 vMag
21 October Draconids were identified in the charts below you can see they are a very narrow peak, suggesting a narrow stream of dust the Earth is passing through. The average magnitude was 1.
Ground map of the Draconids showing the meteors that were triangulated with the Nemetode group, our observations are the ones detected by the 'Dartford' Observatory
We identified 53 Orionids, peaking on the 21st October and an average magnitude of 1
Below is a 15 minute video of all 308 meteors verified in October.
Ground map of the Orionids showing the meteors that were triangulated with the Nemetode group, our observations are the ones detected by the 'Dartford' Observatory.
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The society run an 'almost automated' meteor camera, if you want to be part of the meteor team checking the results every morning then please speak to the coordinator - Janice.
A total of 535 Meteors were captured, with 340 of them being Perseid meteors. Below is a video of the 20 brightest meteors during August.
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Summary of the report sent to the Nematode meteor group.
The Nematode group were able to match 11 of our meteors with observations from other observers in the group producing these orbits.
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THIS WAS A SPOOF
Meteor camera success features in BAA newsletter.
In all seriousness, there are a lot of people to thank for going up and down the ladder and providing input into getting the Meteor Cam working, so many that I daren't not mention anyone because I'm bound to miss someone - you know who you are - we still have a small bug that Simon is working on to prevent the sorted meteor files from reappearing on the myCloud drive.
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What is astonishing about this image is that in 8 seconds Kevin has also captured the Milkyway which in his neck of the woods is washed out with light pollution.
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Simon Dawes left his automated radio meteor observations to do the work and checked up later in August
Like last year the morning of the 12th showed the most meteors.
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This was the highest duration meteor captured on the 12th August 2013 at 11:38:18 it lasted for 338 counts which looking at the trace is about a minute.
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Report by Simon Dawes
On holiday in Austria, clouded out, however my automated radio meteor observations continued to run 24hrs per day while I was away, this year was more successful than last, primarily due to the Yagi now being mounted on a mast.
Frequency 143.049 MHz
Equipment 4 Element Yagi, Yupiteru MVT7100 receiver, Spectrum Lab software
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ColourGram of total Meteor durations, hours are down the page days across the page, represents all of August 2012
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Waterfall diagram from Spectrum Lab showing some of the Perseid meteors
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Looking at the waterfall traces my system automatically saves there was a significant number of large long duration traces during the Perseids. For those not familiar with waterfall diagrams, time is on the vertical axis (present at the top past at the bottom) and frequency on the horizontal axis, the colour represents the signal strength at that frequency. a 'wide' plot indicates a dopler-shift of the radar (GRAVES) that I am monitoring which is normally not 'visible' from my location. The thin vertical line is noise (a real pain in the ....) The meteor in the middle of the trace at 04:58 and 09s is a more usual meteor, very short duration (in this case 4 clock counts) but yo can see the other meteors last much longer (the ionisation path reflecting the radar lasts longer in the atmosphere)
Analysing the meteor durations and putting into bins it was able to show a much sharper peak when only meteors greater than 8 counts were included
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