150x Time-lapse of Meteor Debris Dissipation (Jim Lindelien)

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150x Time-lapse of Meteor Debris Dissipation

Animated GIF video of sixteen frames of 30-second subs that recorded a meteor near M8. The debris can be observed drifting away. This was about 1:32 AM local time, so I don't think we're seeing this event by reflected sunlight, and I'm not certain whether the debris remains ionized or illuminated by the "earthshine" of mankind's artificial illumination or both...? At that time the crescent moon was still ~14 degrees below my local horizon but perhaps was illuminating the event at altitude.

Part of the apparent drift, of course, is parallax shift given that I was tracking the stars during the eight minutes of this sequence. There's also a brief satellite track near M20.

Camera gain 132 at -5C.

After very basic pre-processing and stretching, I used PixInsight's Blink tool to crop the FOV and export the 16 frames into a .avi video file

, selecting 5 frames/sec playback speed, then used an online tool to convert that file to a compressed GIF.

Cropped FOV. Lens aperture f/2.0. Twilight flats. I used a filter size adapter ring on the front of the Rokinon lens to "kludge-fit" the LPR filter onto it.

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* I've never been able to make this video export feature of PI's Blink work under Windows 10, but it runs just fine on Linux.

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