Observation by Steve Bosley: Annotated Meteor Radiant Map

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Steve Bosley

Observer

Steve Bosley

Observed

2020 Jan 04 - 12:59

Uploaded

2020 Jan 04 - 12:59

Objects

Meteor

Equipment

multiple CCTV day/night cameras

Location

ALL UK Meteor Stations

Target name

Composite Meteor Radiants

Title

Annotated Meteor Radiant Map

About this image

Radiant maps are now fairly commonplace and are a good way to demonstrate the spread across the night sky of the meteors observed from the UK by our NEMETODE and UKMON video camera networks. However, in isolation they can be a bit vague and so I set myself the challenge of adding bright stars and constellation outlines to the chart. What I hadn't foreseen was that the "normal" projection plotted everything onto a globe aka the earth and so I needed to flip the ra coordinates of everything to produce this chart (which shows the highest quality (Q3) observations of all meteors captured by more than one meteor station between 2012 and end November 2019. The bright stars are sized according to magnitude (but no, this does not consider the recent behaviour of Betelgeuse!).

Files associated with this observation

ALLUK Q3 to end Nov 2019.jpg (584.3 kB)

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Steve Bosley, Peta Bosley, Dr Andrew Smith, Neil Morrison, Eric Watkins, Graham Winstanley, Mike Foylan, Jeremy Shears, David Basey, Andy Wilson, Peter Carson, Andrew Dumbleton

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