Observation by Nick James: Deep sky with a meteor camera

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2022 Apr 09 - 03:00

Uploaded

2022 Apr 13 - 20:38

Objects

Widefield
Equipment

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Constellation

Scutum

Field centre

RA: 18^h25^m
Dec: -08°43'
Position angle: -20°15'

Field size

51° × 29°

Equipment

IMX291 + 6mm, f/0.95 lens

Exposure

500 x 1/25s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

Scutum

Title

Deep sky with a meteor camera

About this image

I operate a number of meteor cameras which record 25 fps video using an IMX291 board camera. This one is pointing to my south east and currently shows the Scutum and Sagittarius star clouds in the morning sky. These cameras are remarkably sensitive. This image is a stack of 500 video frames (i.e. around 20s exposure) and it shows stars to fainter than mag 8. That is faint enough to potentially pick up bright novae in real time. Perhaps I should resume the nova patrolling that I did many years ago using 2415.

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