Meteor Showers

Important note : Especially if you want to catch also - slow moving - satellites (ISS...) with the meteors when you start unattended detection
for a night be sure you have at least 100-200 GB of free disk space on the hard disk and that the recycle bin is empty ! Especially if there are
some clouds passing by... Otherwise UFO will abort recordings before the end of the night when it is generally the most interesting !
Example : in the 201111 18-19 Leonids captures I had planned to have a nice ISS transit in the middle of the field ... but 50GB of free space
have not been enough to work until 7 AM !

2012 Quadrantid meteo shower ...

RF2005X 1/3" SONY EX-View HAD CCD 0.003Lux camera +130° wide anglelens,
GPS 0.1ms time base Video text overlay unit
EZCAP USB 2.0 Videocapture (Win7x64 drivers), UFO2, Starmax

Click here for a movie of all the captures (at 3 Fps which is 10 times slower than normal)

click here for the .MOV of the best one and here for the same at 3 fps.

Below Canon 40D 30s (1s to save) FD3.5 ISO 640 F=18mm

The best one (06:18:28 UT) or it is only miscalculated/mislocated (01h08min time difference !) Iridium3 :

Starmax composite of the night :

2011 Leonids ...

RF2005X 1/3" SONY EX-View HAD CCD 0.003Lux camera +130° wide anglelens,
GPS 0.1ms time base Video text overlay unit
EZCAP USB 2.0 Videocapture (Win7x64 drivers), UFO2, Starmax

201111 18-19

To see the small movie which have given this Starmax image choose WMV or MOV links.

201111 17-18

To see the small movie which have given this Starmax image choose WMV or MOV links.

2011 Orionids ...

20111023

Jupiter is shown as bright dots at the bottom

Click here to see the divx movie of the night. Right click to download. Movie can then be studied frame/frame in Virtualdub.

20111022

Jupiter is shown as bright dots at the bottom

Click here to see the divx movie of the night. Right click to download. Movie can then be studied frame/frame in Virtualdub.

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Another Geminid ...

20101214 00:00 UT !

Moded Canon EOS 40D, 400ISO, 30s exposure.

Processing of RAW image with Registax5 the PSP and Pdark.

A huge Geminid !!!

20101213 estimated (until further calculations) 05h31 UT

Camera on tripod was facing South ...

The picture below is the result of Starmax from 1h50 UT until sky got a bit bright
(I cut the rest of the AVI before making JPG for Starmax....)

Constellation image from Stellarium 10...

See the astromovies here to see the incredible luck I had ...

Below 20071021 (peak of Orionids)

Toucam II (+130° wide lens) images (10s exposures) co-added with addmax and save steps of Starmax

The 3 images with nice events registered/combined with registax V4

1 is a bright orionid meteor, 2 a small one and 3 a probable Iridium flash