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Posted by Nick James at 07:04 on 2011 Oct 21
I’ve put some video highlights from the last few days on my website. The original MPEG2 file is 168MB. A compressed and smaller Windows Media file is only 35MB. If you have any trouble playing the MPEG2 file try VLC.
Posted by Nick James at 07:04 on 2011 Oct 20
Good luck with the Orionid watch Paul. There have certainly been some nice ones over the last few nights. I hope the weather holds.
Posted by Paul A Brierley at 14:17 on 2011 Oct 19
Very nice Nick,I hope to run an organised watch from our star party this week-end. If the rain and clouds stay way.
Posted by Tony Markham at 18:54 on 2011 Oct 10
I’ve only seen three reports from the UK so far, with Richard Fleet faring best and seeing 22 Draconids during 2000-2045UT (LM=4.2).
Posted by Michael McNeill at 17:21 on 2011 Oct 10
The evening of 8th October was generally cloudy but with 3 large holes appearing in the clouds at 19.30 – 19.40 UT (3 Draconids at mag 1), 20.10 – 20.25 UT (4 Draconids at mag 1 and 1 at mag -1),20.45 – 20.50 UT (1 Draconid at mag -2.0) No faint meteors seen.
Posted by Marlyn Smith at 08:38 on 2011 Oct 10
Image by Paulo Casquinha, full disk H-alpha 20111009 at 1424 UTPosted by Nick James at 20:36 on 2011 Oct 09
I haven’t heard any more details from John, just a short text late last night that they had observed three bursts of activity although badly affected by moonlight. The IMO homepage (http://www.imo.net/) has a plot showing a ZHR of around 350 at 20:00 UT so something interesting happened. I’ll post again if I hear anything more from John.
Posted by Gary Poyner at 12:34 on 2011 Oct 09
After a cracking ‘TA’ meeting in Basingstoke, we made a mad dash back to Brum (and I mean mad-dash) in the hope of seeing something. Yep, you guessed it – cloud and eventually rain.If it had been clear I would have been looking at CV’s anyway :-)Gary
Posted by Len Entwisle at 12:14 on 2011 Oct 09
The ‘Yorkies’ suffered the same cloudy fate. I did have a look at predicted weather from Morecambe Bay North , Teeside , Lincolnshire to Anglesey as I just need to move self, sun lounger, red torch and one of my Watec’s . No promise of anything worthwhile so ended up at home trying to catch streaming video ,listening in to US radio pings and keeping an eye out on Twitter , all on the puter.
Posted by Marlyn Smith at 12:12 on 2011 Oct 09
AR1302 in white light and H-alpha imaged 20110928 by Dave Tyler between 0922 and 0944 UT
AR1302 20110929 at 1032 UT imaged by Paulo Casquinha using 10" Newt f6
Saying goodbye to AR1302. Image by Martin Crow, 20111002 at 1220 UTPosted by Gordon MacLeod at 09:29 on 2011 Oct 09
Exact same too on the North Coast of Scotland. I listened to Spaceweather Radio on the internet and the meteor echoes from the Texas area, and counted 77 meteor echoes between 19.00 and 20.00UT.
Posted by Marlyn Smith at 09:03 on 2011 Oct 09
Same in SW Scotland. Yet another observing session that my local Astro Society had organised that didn’t go ahead due to awful weather. We seem to be jinxed!
Posted by Paul A Brierley at 08:46 on 2011 Oct 09
Much the same here I’m afraid Nick.We had rain all day in Macclesfield, which persisted into the evening. I pleased to read of John’s success.
Posted by Tom Moran at 20:02 on 2011 Oct 08
LynSorry about that, probably got carried away with excitement not having witnessed a flare. I will change my site info.Regards.Tom
Posted by Gordon MacLeod at 19:38 on 2011 Oct 08
Thanks again for all your advice.One further query if you can give me the benefit of your advice:I would like to capture auroral displays, but in time I would imagine I’d like to capture comets and galaxies.I bought and received the BAA guide today to DSLR astrophotography in the post today.I’ve just read it and the more I read around the subject on the internet, the more it seems to be recommended that you remove, or to get the Infrared filter removed.However, will it still be able to capture these objects if it not removed?I know you can send the camera away to be mdified in this way; or buy one already modified, but the technicality of removing the IR filter seems only for the very proficient plus the fact it nullifies the warranty, and the mark up on modified ones seems a bit much.Thanks again in advance of any replies.
Posted by Marlyn Smith at 19:49 on 2011 Oct 07
Hi Tom,I’ve had a look at your clip, well done! You’ve labelled it AR1303 on the site though. GOES satellite data show 2 flares from AR1302 on the 28th September 2011C9.3 flare start 1226 UT peak 1232 end 1238M1.2 flare start 1324 UT peak 1328 end 1330
Posted by Paul A Brierley at 19:19 on 2011 Oct 02
Graham Relf wrote:
I am very keen to encourage others to start doing some astrophotography. DSLRs provide an easy way to start. My own site is aimed at explaining how to do it and shows many photos taken with Canon EOS cameras: http://www.grelf.netI have just started out DSLR imaging, using D40 Nikon attached to my 10" F4.8. I have not seen anything positive, from this camera, when used for Astro-imaging. So I wanted to see just what it was capable off.Looking at the first results. I think the D40 is pretty good.And it has encouraged me to continue using it.The image I have here, is an un-guided 20 minute exposure using 10 x 120 second subs.
