(meteorobs) Meteor Activity Outlook for October 13-19, 2012

[Chris Peterson]

If you want to try for lunar impacts, telescope aperture is very 
important. You'd like at least 200mm of aperture- an SCT is a very good 
instrument for this. Your camera should be any high sensitivity B&W 
video camera. Low noise security cameras using Sony HAD EXView sensors 
are the best, and most give about the same performance- Supercircuits 
PC164CEX2, Watec 902H, etc. You can record to a video device or use a 
frame grabber to record directly to hard disk. Post process the video 
with LunarScan to detect meteors.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 10/12/2012 5:46 PM, Bomber2 Panther wrote:
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> Hi Robert,Enjoying reading your outlook articles!I wanted to ask you what are the chances of Lunar Impacts being visible through the Orionids peak, will the first quarter moon be in a position to intersect the stream?How should one go about capturing video, i know with lunar occultations it's very hard to capture a mag 5 star near the dark limb due to overexposing the bright limb.Any flashes would have to be around mag 2 or 3 to be easily visible on a dark limb, what are the normal magnitudes of meteor impacts that have been recorded?I intend to have go if you think it's worth trying for at this lunar phase. Cheers,Chris WyattWalcha, NSWAustralia>  Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:36:20 -0700