Perseid Meteors (Robert Gillette)

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Perseid Meteors

For this year’s visit of the Perseids I lashed together an all-sky camera from an ASI M120MC and the apparently 150-degree fisheye lens that comes with it, mounted it on a tripod and waited for the predicted 30 to 50 meteors per hour on 13-15 August -- the first fairly clear nights in weeks. Ho-hum.

Here are the two best but modest catches (with two small ones in Version B.) I ran 90-second images from 22:30 to 00:30 local (02:30 to 04:30 UTC) on 13-14 August (when the system stalled) and from 23:15 to 04:15 (03:15 to 08:15 UTC) on 14-15 August.

I was always skeptical of the predicted abundances of meteors in these showers and am especially so now. Caught a grand total of 5 mostly small ones, though I did visually see two nice bolides early on 15 August – both just above my trees and just below the view of the fisheye.

But I found an all-sky camera is fun.

Planning an upgrade with a StarlightXpress Oculus lens for my old SXH9C under a small dew-dome. Wondering what’s the best way to convert 150 or so still-frames into a GIF or MPG.

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Description: Two from the night of 13-14 August. Jupiter at upper right, Cass at bottom center. 90 second image as cirrus closed in.

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