[Michael O’Connell]

Bill,

Great results as always.

What we need next is a 100mm lens on a tracking mount….

But seriously, have you ever considered building a tracking station?

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Bill,

Nice results there. I’m not familiar with HROFFT. Is it similar to Spectrum Lab, in terms of recording a daily log file?

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Alex, Grant & Bill.

Grant, I suggest reading the following:

https://www.britastro.org/radio/downloads/SkyAtNight/BBC_SatN_HOWTOOBSERVEMETEORS.pdf

Regards,

MIchael.

 

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Jeremy and happy new year to you too.

It’s been non-stop cloud here the past 3 weeks. I had hopes to enjoy some observing during the Christmas, but alas, not to be. I wonder sometimes why radio astronomy is not more popular in this part of the world.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks for the heads-up Alex.

Noticeable peak last night.

See attached plot of detections from my radio setup.

I will analyse the data in further detail in the next few days.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Glad you enjoyed the day.

Most of the talks are now up on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYRzkgc8mfZr5FsmkTCvW0YfNew8q06Lz

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

After a successful event, I would like a say a massive THANK YOU to the following people for making the event happen:

– The Speakers for preparing and delivering an excellent set of talks. They really were top class!

– Dunsink Observatory for kindly hosting the event. Particular thanks to Jonathan, Sam and Hilary.

– All those who travelled to the event, especially those who flew over from the UK. Great to see good turnout of BAA members!

– Nick James very kindly brought the voice recorder and so in due course I hope to sync the audio with the PowerPoint files and share them here. Thanks Nick!

– Mike Foylan for setting up his meteor camera demonstration.

– Stephen Corcoran (meteorites.ie) for setting up his meteorite display

– Everyone else who helped out in their own way to make the event happen.

– Many thanks of course to the BAA for always supporting events like this and encouraging like-minded enthusiasts to get together.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Neil.

[Michael O’Connell]

Nice work lads, well done!

Regards,

Michael

[Michael O’Connell]

Eric,

Good question.

I would like to record the event, but I personally don’t have a setup to do it. However, I will examine it and see what we can do.

In the interim, I would appreciate if you can drop me an email. We’d be more than happy to help get you up and running.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Hi All,

We’d like to get a handle on the expected number of attendees.

If you are interested in attending and have not contacted me already, I would appreciate if you can email me please:

michael [at] astroshot [dot] com

Thanks.

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Ha!

It reminds me of my trip to Hoover Dam. On the way, there were signs for Hoover Dam Radio on an AM frequency.

So, we tuned in and it was just a prerecorded message on loop.

What was funny was the southern drawl accent saying:

“Hoover Dam. It’s Daammmmnn Big!”

😉

[Michael O’Connell]

What exposure times did you use Bill?

How does one determine the start and end times of the meteor?

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Bill.

I’ve used Vega for calibration in RSpec previously when I used a Star Analyser in my telescope so I’ll stick with that method.

Thanks,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Bill,

How did you carry out your instrument correction?

I thin thinking of adjusting the settings in the camera to stack the images and use Vega as a standard reference.

Alternatively, I could try a sodium street lamp I guess.

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Schedule Update:

Jim Rowe will pop over to Dublin for the conference and will give a talk on SCAMP/FRIPON.

He will take my talk slot.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Hi Peter,

You’re more than welcome to attend!

I’m guessing the easiest route for you would be from Stansted with Ryanair? They’ve flights every couple of hours.

A few other BAA members have emailed me expressing an interest in attending.

If the flights were arriving at similar times, I could collect you all from the airport.

May I suggest that you email me please:   michael [at] astroshot [dot] com

We can then try and coordinate flight times.

At this stage, the venue is confirmed and speakers have booked their flights.

Regards,

Michael.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Jeremy.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Nick.

[Michael O’Connell]

Thanks Jack and Hugh.

Re the classification system, Bill Ward may be best placed to answer that question.

Bill: feel free to chime in here please if you see this post.

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