#ukmon

2023-08-28

Lotsa #perseid meteors automatically captured by my #ukmon / #gmn camera while we were away on holiday 🤩

Combined photo of meteors captured on the night of the 14th August, mostly PerseidsDiagram of captured meteor tracks, mostly PerseidsA bright Perseid meteorAnother bright Perseid meteor, right by the Pleiades
2023-08-09

Several bright #perseid #meteors last night, and over 800 matched by the #ukmon cameras. Pics below, and a list the 100 brightest here
archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

A perseid meteorAnother perseid meteor
2023-04-28

I think i can call time on the 2023 #Lyrid #meteor shower now. A full report is available at the link below, but TLDR:

#UKMON made 2039 single-station detections, 88% of which were involved in multistation matches, leading to 331 confirmed matched Lyrids. 144 cameras were involved in matches. The brightest was mag -2.6; there were no fireballs or potential meteorite droppers.

archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

The peak of observations was on the night of 23/24 April, but this reflects poor weather (...)

chart showing number of meteors per hour during the Lyrids
Mary McIntyre AstronomyMaryMcIntyreAstro@astrodon.social
2023-01-24

Our NW facing #GMN #RaspberryPi #MeteorCamera did capture the mag -5.6 #Fireball this morning but the sky was too bright for analysis. I grabbed this from the nightly timelapse video. Analysis is on the #UKMON archive: tinyurl.com/4pf6r8hp

Fireball screenshot from a North West facing meteor camera based in North Oxfordshire
2023-01-18

MeteorGlobe

Recent #meteors picked up by the #ukmon and other meteor detection #astronomy camera networks around the world, in glorious interactive #3D

robagar.github.io/meteor-globe

Screenshot of the 3D MeteorGlobe app showing meteors detected over the UK
2023-01-08

Update on the #Quadrantid #meteor shower as observed by #ukmon:
The network picked up just under 3000 meteors from 138 cameras, leading to 416 confirmed orbits. Many events were seen by several cameras (median 8 cameras). The observed peak was on the morning of 04/Jan when we detected ~250 per hour and confirmed about 80.

Confirmed 2023 #Quadrantids per hour, as seen by #ukmon
2022-12-14

Hourly #geminid confirmed detections for the last two days across the #UKMON network

Hourly confirmed Geminid meteor rates across the UK network.
2022-12-14

I have two #RMS cameras, one pointing north, the other south. Last night, the two combined captured 507 meteors, I've never seen so many! The #raspberrypi pc's that had to process all the data were hard at it until nearly lunchtime :-) #UKMON #geminids #meteor

Stacked image of all the meteors picked up on UK004NStacked image of all the meteors picked up on UK005R
Mary McIntyre AstronomyMaryMcIntyreAstro@astrodon.social
2022-12-14

The #GeminidsMeteorShower peak was around 03:00UT this morning. Despite partly cloudy skies we detected hundreds of #meteors across our 4 #RMS cameras + over 1,200 matched events across #UKMON! Here are the track-stacks #Geminids #MeteorShower #Meteors #Geminids2022 #RaspberryPiMeteorCamera

2022-12-14

Sooo many #meteorites detected last night as part of the #ukmon network. All part of the #Geminids shower. Here is a typical view from my roof over night, a shooting star every few minutes

Photo of a shooting star from station UK0052 in the UKMON network
2022-12-03

Meteor sighting
Before too long I'll post some more detail here about another project I've been working on for a year or so now, specifically providing data to the UK Meteor Network. Essentially you can install a camera connected to a Raspberry Pi running software that allows for the constant monitoring of an area of the night sky, with a view to capturing images of meteors. The data is then processed centrally to estab
g4eid-km8h.net/2022/12/03/mete
#astronomy #ukmon

2022-11-30

The November Orionids #meteors peaked last night. #UKMON picked up about 4000 possibles, leading to 247 confirmed orbits. The brightest was mag -3.8

archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/
#MeteorShower

2022-11-21

Inaugural post will be latest images of #meteors captured on #UK003W & #UK005P
#ukmeteornetwork #ukmon #space #nightsky

A stack of images of meteors burning up in the atmosphere over the course of one night.
2022-11-18

Plenty of #fireball meteors this year too. This one, from 15th November, was part of the Taurid Resonant Swarm. You can see its orbit and trajectory on the #ukmon website here:
archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

An A2 Taurid fireball over Eastern England, 2022-11-15
2022-11-18

The #NorthernTaurids will be rumbling on for a bit longer. This #meteor shower doesn't have a well defined peak but since mid-September, #ukmon has picked up about 4500 NTAs.

More at archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

A Northern Taurid meteor picked up by the UKMON cameras
2022-11-18

The #Leonids #meteor shower peaked last night and despite the weather, detected activity was high across the #ukmon camera network. Overall we've detected 1550 leonid meteors and matched over 200 orbits.
More at archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/

leonid meteor shower confirmed activity, peaked at 20 per ten minutes on the night of 17th Nov
2022-11-18

On Friday night we have a great opportunity to see meteors from the #leonids meteor shower. Head out from midnight and scan the skies! Wrap up warm! You can watch live captures on our #ukmon cameras here: ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/live/#/

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