Perseid Meteor Watch – 10th/11thAugust 2024
When you sit back to watch the Perseid meteor shower, you’re actually seeing pieces of comet debris heat up as they enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up in a bright burst of light, streaking a vivid path across the sky as they travel at 37 miles (59...
Asteroid 2023 CX1 caught by CMHASD meteor camera on Monday 13th February 2023
Updated: 19th February 2023 Exciting news!!!!!! An asteroid that had only been discovered in space a few hours before impacting the Earth has been caught by the Crayford (CMHASD) meteor camera on Monday 13th February 2023 at 2.59am. It is only the seventh time an...
98 Geminids captured on camera for the night of the 14th/15th Dec 2022
It was a very busy night for CMHASD meteor camera on the 14th/15th Dec 2022. The Meteor camera captured 141 ‘sightings’ of which 126 were meteors including 4 sightings of 2 meteors in the same shot by the camera. Out of the 126 meteors 98 were...
Best Meteors of 2020
Almost 2000 meteors were detected in 2020, we would have had quite a few more but for the cloudy skies in August that limited the view of the Perseid’s in...
December 2020Meteor report
December was particularly cloudy, but we still manage to detect 288 meteors, 115 from the Geminid meteor shower....
Meteor Report for November 2020
November 2020 was spent largely in lockdown due to the Corona virus, one thing keeping us from all going crazy is our astronomy and with our remotely operated meteor camera our members were still able to observe and had lots of candidates to look forward to, and it...
October 2020 Meteor report
There were 255 meteors captured in October 2020 from 30 showers including 49 from the Orionids. The media hype about the Orionids amounts to nothing however we did record double the number of Orionids as last year so in some ways it was special – although it...
Meteor report for September 2020
This is the meteor report for the automated meteor camera operated by the Crayford manor house astronomical society Dartford, for the month of September 2020 This month we detected a total of 269 meteors, well over half were sporadic meteors, meteors from known...
Perseid Meteor Shower Report 2020
The below video is a report for the perseid meteor shower, based on meteors captured by the semi-automated meteor camera operated by the society...
Meteor Captured
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ISS and Starlink captured in meteor cam.
Member, Gary, identified the ISS and Starlink satellites in our automated meteor cam...
Meteor Report for November 2019
This is the meteor report for November 2019, by the Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society Dartford. This month we were plagued with poor weather and this is reflected in the low number of meteors captured. In total we observed 139 meteors from 29 different...
AM or PM for meteor observations?
It is well known that you see fewer meteors before midnight than after. This is explained by the fact that before local midnight Meteors hitting the Earth’s atmosphere must be travelling in the same direction as the Earth, so the relative speed of the meteor to...
Meteor Report for October 2019
In October 2019 we detected a total of 138 meteors associated with 29 different showers. We observed 18 Orionids, which was the most active shower in October, the brightest being of visual magnitude -2.8, however sporadic meteors dominated our detections....
Meteor Report for September 2019
Lots of meteors in September including some very bright ones, so worth checking out the video!...
Meteor Report for August 2019
A huge number of meteors were detected in August 2019. August continues to be a bumper month for Meteors, dominated by the Perseid’s, but there are many other minor showers contributing to the number detected. We also had our brightest meteor yet, a magnitude...
Meteor Report for July 2019
As the nights start to draw in we have started to see an uplift in the number of Meteors detected. Interestingly the Perseid’s – a well known broadly dispersed shower (peaks on 13th August) were the highest proportion of meteors from known...
Meteor report for June 2019
A total of 11 Sporadic were identified, out of a total of 21 meteors analysed. The brightest being of magnitude...
Meteor Detector Report for May 2019
The short nights and poor weather have conspired to reduce the number of meteors we have been able to detect, but we still managed to detect 44 meteors, 30 of them sporadic....