(meteorobs) Perseid report

Roberto me3540 at mclink.it
Thu Aug 13 12:01:55 EDT 2015


A very good result. 
I with my room that operates in Rome, from my house, with a field of 45° x 34° I recorded 148 meteors in 7 hours (from 20UT at 03UT) with Mintron camera (same sensor Watec). 
Many bright meteors but not fireball (the night before I recorded a nice fireball of approximately -4).
You too many meteors in the last hour? I'm 42!
However the number seems higher than the normal years and also visually, observing Frasso Sabino, I had the same impression.
Roberto Haver
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roggemans 
  To: Meteor science and meteor observing 
  Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 8:54 AM
  Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Perseid report


  Poor sky at my home (Mechelen, Belgium) with stars of +3 barely visible due to cirrus and thin cloud, no way for visual observing. However my 4 Watec cameras, each with a small FOV (22° x 30°) captured as many as 360 meteors in 7,41 hours. Most meteors were Perseids and relative bright. Looks like we got a normal return with very nice hourly rates. My cameras are part of the Benelux CAMS network which aims to obtain meteor orbits, therefore it is difficult to value the activity in terms of hourly rates or ZHRs. In total the network has 47 operational cameras More about CAMS can be found here: http://cams.seti.org/easyCAMS.html. I uploaded a selection of brighter meteors on my Facebook page.


  Clear skies,


  Paul Roggemans


  On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca> wrote:

    Rascals:
     I set up an experimental image intensifier spectrograph and secured a few spectra.  I was using a Grade B surplus Philips XX1332 image intensifier I bought from a surplus dealer in the UK.  

    See:http://www.abex.co.uk/sales/optical/night_vision/intensifiers/xx1332/index.htm

    The intensifier proved to be very noisy and there were other spectra produced by lights, out of the field of view.  I used an Optec LLC 300 g/mm blazed transmission grating on a Bronica F-2.8 - 100mm f.l. lens.  The spectra are of questionable quality because of the intensifier noise etc.  It will take me awhile to download and examine these spectra to my computer.  They were recorded on a VCR video tape which uses NTSC so is not compatable with the European system.  My tape ran out around 1:30 a.m. PDT and some hase was present so I went to bed.  No time/date stamp was used.  If the spectra look worthwhile I will try and capture them and send you samples.
        If its clear out tonight I will try again.  Hard for this old goat to stay up all night, ha! ha!   Never did try my DSLR as I did not have the correct adapter rings to mount my grating on.  Have this on order but of course won't get here in time for the Perseids.  Didn't set up my reflection grating spectrograph as I was having difficulies with it.  I was going to use an old Sentinel All-sky Camera interface box to try and capture spectra directly to a computer.  Of course Murphy's Law hit me and the computer failed.  Hope to get this working eventually.  Hope the video is not too noisy as that will trigger captures.
        Anyway that's my report for now.

    Ed Majden
    B.C. Meteor Network
    Courtenay, B.C. Canada

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