Re: Fwd: [baa-rag] UK meteor Radar Project and the Perseids
Hello All
Here are a couple of my own images from last night, obtained with
my tripod mounted Pixel 7a phone in 'Night Sight' astrophotography
mode, which collects sixteen 16 second images, then stacks and
aligns them. The 1920 pixel wide one is from about 23:43 BST last
night, while the one scaled to 2048 wide is from 01:13 BST this
morning. The Pixel 7a seems to use UT for its 'Night Sight'
filenames.
Chris H
From: julianmole@PROTECTED
Hi Everyone,Thank you Chris for the heads up. I was aware they were due peak on the 12th so have been looking to see how clear the last few nights might be.
Given the good conditions last night I decided to hop in the car and drive out to Tubney, to the AAS observing site. I took something to lie on and my 8x30 binoculars (to have a scan of the Milky Way), as Bob said it was gloriously warm last night probably the most pleasant I’ve experienced watching the Perseids!
All in all, from 23.00 to 00.05 BST I saw 17 meteors, 16 were Perseids, 1 Sporadic.A few were on the threshold of being spotted however most were brighter, with 6 very bright and 1 fireball low down in the SE which I caught out of the edge of my vision.
Well worth the drive out there to get some darker skies (relative to NE Abingdon).
All the best,
Julian.
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On 12 Aug 2024, at 10:02, David Warr david.warr@PROTECTED [Abingdon Astronomical Society Mailing List] <aasmail@PROTECTED> wrote:
From: david.warr@PROTECTED
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On 11 Aug 2024, at 16:15, Chris Holt chris.holt@PROTECTED [Abingdon Astronomical Society Mailing List] <aasmail@PROTECTED> wrote:
From: chris.holt@PROTECTED
The Perseids are predicted to peak at between 13:00 and 16:00 UT (14:00 - 17:00 BST) tomorrow (12th). This evening should be a good time to look, from about 23:00 BST onwards, and the sky forecast is currently clear. The radiant is below the W of Cassiopeia in the NE but it's better to look to one side or the other, favouring whichever is the darker for you.
My own radar scatter monitor is showing increasing activity today; the Perseids usually have quite a narrow peak.
The shower should still be ongoing tomorrow evening but there is forecast to be more cloud.
The BAA have a meteor scatter project using a radio beacon in the Mansfield area. They are streaming data live, as described in the message below and its attachment.
Chris H
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Subject: [baa-rag] UK meteor Radar Project and the Perseids
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 09:45:06 +0100
Hello Folks
You might like to pass on the following to any Astro Societies or individuals interested in Meteors. I attach the text as a .pdf to make that even easier to do.
All the best
Brian
Perseids and the UK Meteor Radar Project
The UK Meteor Beacon has been operational since May 2022 enabling anyone with a suitable receiver to detect and study radio echoes from meteors entering the earth's atmosphere over a large part of the UK. The Beacon Transmitter is located at the Sherwood Observatory of the Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society.
The second phase of this project has been to establish a network of receivers accessible via the internet for anyone to study meteors without the need for their own dedicated receiver. “The UK Meteor Radar Project” is a Bi-Static radar to study meteors.
Receivers in the network stream their data to a central server which users can access. Up to 6 receivers are displayed at https://ukmeteorbeacon.org/beaconclient/ . Details of how to use the display can be found at the project web site:- https://ukmeteorbeacon.org/Home see “Observing GB3MBA” and the live displays are explained at https://ukmeteorbeacon.org/Documents2List . Select “Using the Live Streams”.
We aim to maintain the live stream at https://ukmeteorbeacon.org/beaconclient/ 24/7 and during the Perseids this August we will provide an additional stream which has greater bandwidth and includes sound. This can be viewed at https://batc.org.uk/live/gb3mba. Again the “Using the Live Streams” document explains the display.
Individuals or societies observing the Perseids will find these live streams of radio echoes a useful addition to their optical observations. The radio echoes can be viewed by day and night and in all weather conditions.
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