Orionids meteor shower animation II - 69 frames!!

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Here are a few animations from Bert's selection of 69 shots from the night of Oct 22:

Full size gif at 2.5 fps, 14MB;
2/3 size gif at 2.5 fps, 3.3MB;
2/3 size gif at 5.0 fps with moderate contrast enhancement, 3.5MB;
1/2 size gif at 2.5 fps with moderate contrast enhancement, with a more dial-up friendly 1.3MB.

[fringe_dweller]

thats just simply totally awesome!!
Love the full size job!
hows the slow moving earthgrazer fireball that stretches over two frames, travelling nearly 90d heading s/s/w in frame 7 and 8 OMG that must of been like 4-5 sec in duration - your really onto something here bert!
cheers again Janoskiss nice work
mmmmmmm fireballs
ufo in there too hehe

[fringe_dweller]

sent links to this and yesterdays thread to meteorobs (with full name/ect. details) - hope thats ok

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

cool!!

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

I'm on a fast connection but the 14MB version still takes several minutes to download. Highly recommended that you go for one of the smaller versions if you're impatient and/or on a slow connection.

[ving (David)]

i am on dialup so i only did the small one, but it is still impressive

[davidpretorius]

congrats this fantastic

[avandonk]

After buying and using the GSTAR-EX camera with c-mount lenses and Canon lenses on a mogg adapter I was amazed at the sensitivity which is easily controlled by how many frames you integrate (1 to 128). There are other sensitivity controls, gain etc.
When I saw the widefield fisheyes on Eb.. I could not resist getting them as I immediately thought whole sky monitoring in real time. The pictures that made these animations were taken at F2.8. The lens goes down to F1.9! The other fisheye I have is F1.5!
At these apertures the light pollution starts to wash out the dimmer stars. At a dark sky site or with a light pollution filter (or both) I am sure that even dimmer meteor trails would be captured. Work is in progress to refine this capture system.
If you look carefully both Magellanic clouds are visible in the images even with light pollution. They were not easily visible with the naked eye when these pics were taken.
Anyway thanks David for the animations. I hope you all enjoyed the movies, beats staying up all night.

Bert

[Dennis]

Thanks Bert and Steve – a very enjoyable vicarious experience indeed. No late nights and days of processing for me, thanks to your fine efforts and the sharing of this wonderful animation.

Cheers

Dennis

[avandonk]

I think the very slow bright object in the movie was an Iridium flare. Can anyone help with its identification. It appeared at 0307hrs on 22 Oct.


Bert

[h0ughy (David)]

top stuff guys done a wonderful job of it!

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by avandonk

I think the very slow bright object in the movie was an Iridium flare. Can anyone help with its identification. It appeared at 0307hrs on 22 Oct.
Bert

Hi Bert

It looks like it may have been Iridium 23 according to Starry Night Pro Plus V6.

Cheers

Dennis

[Ceres1801]

Originally Posted by janoskiss

Here are a few animations from Bert's selection of 69 shots from the night of Oct 22:

Full size gif at 2.5 fps, 14MB;
2/3 size gif at 2.5 fps, 3.3MB;
2/3 size gif at 5.0 fps with moderate contrast enhancement, 3.5MB;
1/2 size gif at 2.5 fps with moderate contrast enhancement, with a more dial-up friendly 1.3MB.

Hello there.That was really amazing. I am into astronomy and for the moment,interested in impacters.Impacters such as Earth-crossing asteroids,comets,meteors etc.Do you like to discuss such possibilities that our planet could be struck by a big rock from outer space? Objects that range in size from just dust size to ten of km across.I have been wondering in the last hour or so how much damage a peice of dust or something the size of a tennis ball would do if it banged into the Earth.Or even an asteroid or meteor 10 or 20 metres across.
Anyway,how did you take video images of meteor showers?It must have been a little costly.The beauty and wonder of space never seems to dull me.It is totally absorbing and I wish I had my own scope.

[CoombellKid]

Originally Posted by Dennis

Hi Bert

It looks like it may have been Iridium 23 according to Starry Night Pro Plus V6.

Cheers

Dennis

Hey Dennis,

I have never been able to match satelites with Starry Night, period. Even
after the update "Comet, Astroroids & satelites data" is there some trick
setting this up? apart from entering my correct location and updating
the data, I'm unsure as to how to correct this.

The Starry Night online support group that never seems to give you an
answer unless your north american. And about as useful as ***s on a Bull

sorry for the OT

Rob

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by CoombellKid

Hey Dennis,
I have never been able to match satelites with Starry Night, period. Even
after the update "Comet, Astroroids & satelites data" is there some trick
setting this up?
>snip
Rob

Hi Rob

In SNP Pro V6, after updating the Satellite, Comet & Asteroid elements from the SNP website, I dialled in the time and date provided by Bert and did the following:

Set the viewing direction to Zenith (click “Z” in the Tool Bar).
FOV was set to the default at 100x66 degrees.

Select “View” from the Menu bar.
Select “Solar System” from the drop down list.
Select “Satellites” from the fly-out list.

Select “Labels” from the Menu bar.
Select “Satellites” from the drop down list.

After performing the above, Iridium 23 just popped up in the middle of the display. See attached screen prints.

Cheers

Dennis

[spacezebra (Petra)]

BRILLIANT!!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers Petra