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Did anybody record STEVE during the auroral activity? My RMS Meteor camera shows an interesting phenomenon around 21.00hrs. to the west of my location in Sussex, so somewhere over south/southwest England. My video is here: https://youtu.be/yXpZOL5TDWU STEVE, if indeed it is STEVE, appears on the lefthand side of the frame just to the left (south) of alpha Oph at az 263 deg, alt 21 deg. A few frames have been corrupted.
At 2024 October 3.956 I recorded it at about mag.14.3 with a wideband filter (L) and 13.6 (R)
https://britastro.org/observations/item.php?id=20241005_153149_2ae1ae1329d5.jpg
I have combined the video from my all-night timelapses captured by my RMS Meteor camera and another ‘NLC/Aurora’ IP camera, with a ‘sonification’ of the measurements from my fluxgate magnetometer. I leave it to the viewer to decide if there is any correlation between the video and audio!
RMS (black & white version): https://youtu.be/-0-gj4Fi2Kg
Colour version: https://youtu.be/3kdEixFE0ucI had to drastically alter the scale on my magnetometer charts to accommodate the 700 nTesla deviation on the north-south sensor!
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Alongside imaging the Sun with a telephoto lens, I plan on using a DSLR with wide-field lens to capture Jupiter, Venus & 12P. It will all be automated so if it works it works and if it doesn’t I will still have a memory of the views of chromosphere and corona through a binocular!
I managed to image the lander and the Falcon 9 rocket booster in a rare (mostly) clear sky on Sunday night (2024 February 18/19). Matched positions given Project Pluto Artsat predictions: https://www.projectpluto.com/sat_eph.htm.
https://britastro.org/observations/item.php?id=20240220_130719_dfa372ad9446.jpg
Ok, our copies must be handled slightly differently then! Same The Mail Group address and post code but mine includes Sunbury-on-Thames. My general Royal Mail deliveries are now only 2 or 3 times a week but AFAIK I still seem to get pretty much everything.
Good luck!
Apart from a bit of trouble renewing my subscription a couple of years ago when the owners changed, I have received the magazine quite regularly every month.
The bottom of my address label shows ‘UNITED KINGDOM 385-01 (*1 of 5)’ which remains the same month-to-month and may indicate that it is part of a batch of 5 copies sent to the UK and packaged by The Mail Group in Sunbury-on-Thames. How does that compare to your label, Chris?
Nick
Just about able to still image JUICE now over 1 million miles distant. I had to track the motion of the spacecraft as it was too faint for imaging at sidereal rate. Project Pluto gave a magnitude of 18.6 but I think it was a bit brighter, maybe closer to 18.
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230422_170616_b8fadbebb39febdd
Nice one, Grant!
Better skies here on April 17th, but not as good as your ‘murky conditions’. I reckon around mag. 17 as predicted by Project Pluto but we both have the booster as much fainter whereas Project Pluto had it 0.1 mag brighter.
Image: https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230418_144755_2de4bfdcf6b88a29
Cloudy on Friday night but marginally better on Saturday. Magnitude: 15.
Would have been a very easy object under good sky conditions.JPL Horizons: 2023-Apr-15 22:05 12 08 17.94 -03 53 10.9
AstroArt: JUICE C2023 04 15.92043 12 08 17.81 -03 53 05.1 15.0 VAttachments:
As a fun exercise, I have turned my magnetometer recordings of the auroral storm into sound – you can hear the result here: https://youtu.be/7o65S2v1-Kw
2-axis magnetometer based on a kit from fgsensors.com https://www.fgsensors.com/shop
Interfaced with an Arduino
Logging on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Audio created by Virtual ANS https://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/ – a simulation of the ‘ANS’ synthesiser, a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_MurzinAttachments:
Our local parish church (St. Andrew & St. Cuthman, Steyning) has recently been fitted with new LED floodlights. However, there is some compensation in that it provides an interesting foreground for planetary conjunction images!
2023 March 1, 18.40hrs.Attachments:
I got this error message when trying to post a reply to the ‘Northern Lights’ topic.
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East of John, from Steyning, West Sussex, under a cloudy sky I observed and videoed the event with an IP camera and a Canon 70D DSLR..
See here: https://www.njq.me.uk/wp/?p=121
This was a slow-moving sporadic. See GMN analysis on UKMON website: https://archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/reports/2023/orbits/202301/20230109/20230109_200123.491_UK/index.html
Derek,
Yes, I can see that your automatic counting is compromised by satellite reflections. i wonder if it may be possible to use any of the Spectrum Lab interpreter’s many features to weed them out? Probably it’s a case of exporting the results of the FFT calculations and processing them through another piece of software!
Regarding the horizontal lines, as I said I am close enough that a slight ‘lift’ will bring in the direct signal. I also get reflections from aircraft flying in and of the airports in the Dijon area which show very small doppler shifts. Sometimes higher flying aircraft moving at greater velocities show larger doppler shifts. The ‘dotted’ traces are due to the radar beam pattern switching direction every few seconds
I wouldn’t have thought there would be any beacons operating on or near to the GRAVES frequency but the software does vividly highlight any and all local interference! Recently my X10 mains switching system started becoming unreliable and I was able to pin down the culprit as a failing switch-mode PSU that was generating a lot of noise at 120kHz.
