Here are the best meteors that I captured overnight last night.
The Perseid meteor shower is underway. If you have clear skies and look for a while you might see a good one!
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A very nice meteor this morning.
We are entering the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.
I captured several very nice ones overnight. Stay tuned for more meteors.
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Here is a closer crop of the nice meteor from this morning. The Perseid meteor shower is in progress and expected to peak around 8/12-8/13.
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@BrianSweet1970
Amateur radio operators can bounce a radio signal off of the moon and the time it takes the signal to come back matches predictions given that distance. We know how fast the signal is moving because if we were wrong we would build antennas incorrectly.
Here is another nice meteor I captured last night.
The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 11/12-11/13. Stay tuned for more meteors.
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Here is one of the nicer meteors I captured last night.
The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 11/12-11/13.
Stay tuned for more meteors.
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@BrianSweet1970
No one would have to land on the moon for this to happen. Radio signals can be bounced off of the surface of the moon. The signal takes just as long as would be expected given the distance.
@AJamesMcCarthy
I spotted it in your image.
I happened to image that galaxy about 24 days before the discovery of SN 2023ixf. Not visible in my image as far as I can tell.
@rachelrogers81
If you photograph meteors like I do you will see there are many satellites up there.
When the sun is below the horizon satellites being high enough to be in sunlight become obvious.
@carlos_castillo
@AJamesMcCarthy
I am still working on my own HDR composition. My initial results also support that it is definitely the moon.
No one will ever prove otherwise. Cope is all they have. 🤣
I captured a really nice meteor this morning.
It may have been an early Perseid. The Perseid meteor shower peaks around 8/12-8/13 and is already active.
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@AJamesMcCarthy
It definitely was a starlink train.
Likely from from launch: Starlink G5-3, 02 February 2023 07:58. Was imaged on 2/11/2023.
Here is a chart from Heaven's above. You can see the trail goes by Mars which is in the upper left of my frame.
Meteors overnight last night.
The Perseid meteor shower is active and expected to peak around 8/12-8/13. There are a few other active showers as well.
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I captured 4 more meteors overnight last night. Based on their direction of travel they may all have been early Perseids.
The Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak 8/12-8/13.
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@AJamesMcCarthy
lol. Luckily it all happened while I was just doing the preview shots.
Another frame with even more trails from the same train. This one was during guiding calibration. :)
Here are images of some of the better meteors I captured overnight last night.
Also have video of all of these and plan to post a few more clips.
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4 years ago today I captured this image of the East Veil Nebula (NGC6992).
This one is on my list of images to re-process. I don't think it's too bad but the stars could be controlled a little better.
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@RedsRhetoric
It seems there is no evidence they will accept if it goes against their fantasy.
I happened to catch the exact moments that I captured earthshine on video including the clicking of the shutter. (this is a clip, I have the full 4+minutes)
I got some more data on IC2169 the night before last. 6hr 30 min total. Details in image description.
IC2169, reflection nebula in Monoceros
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Here is a time-lapse showing a persistent train left by a bright meteor this morning.
Hopefully the next meteor like this can be fully in the frame. 🙂
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Seven years ago today I experienced my first total solar eclipse from Casper, Wyoming.
Here is a time-lapse of frames I captured using my 110mm f/7 ED refractor and a Canon Rebel T4i (modified).
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Here is cropped video of all of the meteors I captured the night before last.
Some very slow moving.
Also have a couple stills I will post later.
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@carlos_castillo
Here is a single exposure I took that also shows that it was the moon.
First is unaltered accept to resize to post.
2nd is with some levels adjustments to bring out the lunar surface detail.
92mm f/5.5 refractor. 1/2sec exposure at ISO 100
@RyanVoutilainen
I sometimes wonder about this one I captured in 2010. Streamer of just a reflection in the lower right?
Through glass with water drops which may have added to reflection possibilities.
Captured numerous much brighter strikes without the effect same night.
@ViewFromShikhar
My favorite subject. :)
Geminid meteor shower 2023 composite
The Andromeda Galaxy
My most recent capture of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks from 3/9/2024
Comet Neowise from 7/16/2020
My radio meteor detection system is showing signs of aurora propagation from Southern Minnesota.
The dot and the narrow line are from meteor propagation. The constant wider fuzzy line is what aurora propagation looks like.
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Here is another meteor from last night. This was a particularly slow moving one so probably not a Perseid.
Setting up again tonight.
Good luck to anyone going for meteors or aurora tonight!
A couple nice meteors from last night.
I captured at least 45 meteors overnight. Lots of processing to do.
The Perseid meteor shower is very active right now and expected to peak 8/12-8/13.
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@TH3LFI5TMFI7V
@Rainmaker1973
Much of it evaporated but not all of it. Many meteorites have been recovered.
Here is my little 82.7 gram meteorite specimen from that crater.
13 years ago today I captured this image of NGC 7635 (The Bubble Nebula) with open cluster M52.
110mm f/7 ED refractor+EOS-20D(modified)
Original (left) a re-process I did today (right) using modern tools Blur/Noise and StarXTerminator.
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21 years ago today I took this image of Mars.
The sad thing is in 21 years I haven't captured a more detailed view of the red planet.
Hopefully I will get around to it this next opposition with modern gear. 🙂
Mars 8/8/2003
About 1 month until the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I am already excited about it.
Here is a time-lapse of a persistent train left by the best meteor I have ever seen from last year's Perseid meteor shower.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks last night from my backyard.
This is my initial process of the data. Definitely showing some interesting structures.
Details in image description.
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@pronounced_kyle
Very cool. Years ago I built a quadrifilar helix antenna for receiving these. I still receive these once in a while. Here is an image from the same satellite from years ago showing the great lakes and the manicouagan crater if you know where to look.
@ViewFromShikhar
Barringer Crater in Arizona in 2005
I consider this my luckiest shot. I purposefully booked my flight so the sun would be at a good angle if I happened to be able to see the crater from the plane.