TheSkySearchers

Very cool. Me and my Wyze Cam V3 are not there yet.

Nice work,

Nice captures! Such an amazing sight to watch.

Excellent. Could you please post some details. I am generally interested in finding out how are you making the video but also particularly interested in the date of capture. I spent all last night outside observing and observed many slow fireballs with high persistence gas trails
Thanks for sharing
Joe

Very nice.

I really must make an effort to find out when there are likely to be any meteor showers in my area of the skies.

I have never seen one in real life yet and missed one that crossed the skies over Southampton on Sunday evening

The Draconids is the next scheduled meteor shower.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/dr ... -see-it-uk

Usually not very prolific but occasionally the dragon spits fire! And if he does then Groovy2 will be sure to catch it!

Regards

Graeme

Thank you for that link Graeme :smile:

It gives me time to have my equipment prepared and hopefully get our first sighting.

I may even attempt to get some sort of photographic capture, but maybe I am being a bit optimistic at this stage :Think:

A visual would be amazing.

3 of the meteors were going Real slow -
one cam pointed South recorded 2 slow meteors
that were going opposite direction of all the others -

they Look cool - not sure why they go so slow
fire looks feathery too -

V3 cam is easy to use - $35 - cheap - work well -
power 2 cams with USB power bank 10,000mah all night
so cam is easy portable -

has very good phone app But you have to have internet -
this is biggest down side to these cams for me -

Im surprised everyone is not using these cams -
I have a folder that has 287 meteor videos that were not
big /long enough for me to mess with -
mostly just the meteors I saw from watching
random One minute file videos -
recorded several Long meteors one 8 seconds many 5
surprising how many meteors there are -

early Last night saw 3 meteors by eye in 2 minutes but not in cam view -

video has noise but filters out Ok and timelapse file
is easy to watch back - one File -
these are the Only cams that I have seen that record in dark sky
for less than $200 up- --

Ring cams work very good -

I watch play back in darkened room - morning w coffee
watch TL Playback using VLC2 - its free - works well -

large meteors make Streak across screen -
only last split second but its visible - pretty exciting -

then I find meteor in One minute files to edit make show with -
TL video about 8 minutes long full night

date of capture is 3 nights ago 9/4/21 -
timestamp on 2 cams is hour off - behind -
have tried to reset time several times but no luck -
today going to try again with Hard reset -
having time wrong ruins video for IMO report so have to get it fixed -
just started doing this few day - no clue why -

This is link to post from 2 weeks ago where I explain work flow I use -

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19905

I am happy to answer any questions anyone has -

OzEclipse

recorded 3 nights ago - 4th
meteor activity was very Low but the Few meteors were big -
cams only recored a few other small meteors 5 - thats it -
kind of surprising - usually 10/15 meteors per cam nightly -

Last 2 nights have close to Zero meteors - first time ever -
recorded one with 1 > second ish time last night -

The slow meteors look different - flame feathery -
saw several similar during last meteor shower -
they are in a posted video -
best one is in center of frame - looks Wow -

last night did see 3 meteors by eye Early in evening 8pm ish-
2 left long lasting trail - 3/4 seconds -
surprised me - rarely do i see trail by eye -

did see meteor by eye 2 nights ago 8pm ish also
then nothing -

during last meteor shower think recorded 68 meteors one night -
around 120 over 3 nights - clouds/Trees lowered # a lot
many / most of meteors left a trail

Over the last week or so there is Complete High Altitude smoke
coverage of sky my location Durango Colorado -
I photo satellites and I got One dim satellite last night-
usually 6 to 20 -

My Solar Panel electric output is down also -
yesterday 2.1Kw - normal 3.1Kw -

@Groovy2


I spent most of the past two nights out till dawn. Monday night September 6-7 saw about a dozen bright fireballs over 3 hrs 130am-430am local. Brightness ranged from mag 1 up to -4 with high persistence vapour trails.

Last night September 7-8, nothing.

Monday night might have been Aurigids judging by the paths and brightness.
Thanks for the info about the cameras.
Joe

OzEclipse

this has several Slow Meteors in the middle of video -

around 1:08 is very cool - slow going up- real feathery fire
looks cool on original video -
once uploaded I really cant watch online

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=19904

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:00 pm The Draconids is the next scheduled meteor shower.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/dr ... -see-it-uk

Usually not very prolific but occasionally the dragon spits fire! And if he does then Groovy2 will be sure to catch it!

Regards

Graeme

@Graeme1858 We have been so looking forward to seeing our first meteor shower Graeme, but alas the skies are thick with dark cloud today :sigh:

I don't think we are going to be lucky tonight.

Thanks for the reminder Vanessa.

It's clear here. But there's some thin high cloud.

I'll have a meteor session later!

Regards

Graeme

The sky hasn't got any better here Graeme.

Low thick cloud is obscuring everything.

I suppose there is still a slim chance of seeing something tomorrow evening, all being well that is.

I hope you have more luck than we did, and look forward to hearing your report.

@Graeme1858 I hope you were successful last night Graeme and managed to see the meteor shower.

Unfortunately, we had low thick cloud all night, but we are maybe hoping for a chance tonight.

It is still a little cloudy at the moment so we may not see anything. Fingers crossed that it clears by nightfall

very nice video , thx .

We had clearish sky with thin high clouds. I had a look for a while but there was nothing happening.

It's a bit clearer tonight but the peak has passed. I'll probably have a look later anyway. I hope your sky clears.

@Groovy2 did you have your sky cam running last night?

Regards

Graeme

We have a lovely clear sky this evening and the Constellations are beautiful.

However, after quite a long naked eye observation with Sophia we didn't see any meteor showers :sigh:

Jupiter and Saturn were good to see though.

@Greenman @Butterfly Maiden

Your comments suggest to me that you were looking in the evening?

You probably already know this but early morning is the prime time for meteors not evening when the visible sky is looking towards the Earth's direction of travel. In the evening, the visible sky is mostly facing the trailing direction of the Earth's motion around the Sun. The result is that in the morning, the visible sky presents a much bigger collision cross section to the meteors with the Earth's atmosphere.

regards

Joe

OzEclipse wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:55 am @Greenman @Butterfly Maiden

Your comments suggest to me that you were looking in the evening?

You probably already know this but early morning is the prime time for meteors not evening when the visible sky is looking towards the Earth's direction of travel. In the evening, the visible sky is mostly facing the trailing direction of the Earth's motion around the Sun. The result is that in the morning, the visible sky presents a much bigger collision cross section to the meteors with the Earth's atmosphere.

regards

Joe

Thank you Joe.

I was going by the information in the following link for viewing the Draconid Meteor Shower which was supposed to peak over the evenings of 8th and 9th October.