(meteorobs) Quadrantids Pictures and Videos

[Mike Hankey]

Jim,

Its orion's commercial allsky camera.

http://www.telescope.com/Astrophotography/Astrophotography-Cameras/Orion-StarShoot-AllSky-Camera/c/4/sc/58/p/100319.uts

its a little expensive,  but a pretty nice package / setup overall. It
uses handyavi software. I'm still working through a few operational
issues with the software.

Thanks,

Mike

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Jim Wooddell <nf114ec at npgcable.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike!
>
> What kind of skycam?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> Jim Wooddell
> http://k7wfr.us
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Hankey" <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 7:05 AM
> Subject: (meteorobs) Quadrantids Pictures and Videos
>
>
>> Hello Meteor Observers,
>>
>> I hope you all enjoyed the Quadrantids. It was a good show from north
>> central Maryland with almost no clouds.
>>
>> I setup a plethora of cameras this year including 2 DSLRs, 3 security
>> cameras pointed at the sky and 1 new all sky camera.
>>
>> It was the first night I used the allsky camera and I don't think I
>> ran the software right because i caught 0 meteors with it. Does anyone
>> have experience using meteor mode with handy AVI?
>>
>> One of my DSLRs filled up the memory card after about an hour and I
>> didn't realize it.
>>
>> Other than those 2 problem I got pretty good results. I caught 8
>> meteors on the primary DSLR using a near allsky fisheye lens.
>>
>> I was a little disappointed with the DSLRs performance after examining
>> the video as I caught over 50 meteors with the security cameras!
>>
>> To my surprise, the vast majority of these were in the southern skies
>> at a low elevation angle (just out of the DSLRs FOV). 95% of them came
>> in between 2 and 5 am.
>>
>> One interesting highlight -- I caught 2 meteors in the same DSLR
>> exposure, while reviewing the video I found the event on film and both
>> meteors happened at the same exact second.
>>
>> I put together a compilation youtube video with a of all of the best
>> video meteors and also a composite image of 6 of the best meteors
>> caught on the DSLR.
>>
>> http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/quadrantids-2012/
>>
>> Happy 2012!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike Hankey
>> Freeland MD
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