Near-Live Leonid Watching System! Loads of images from many countries!
- Observations (and other stuff) for 2001:
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- December 2001 December 22, 2001 Ursids! Image 1
Image 2
- November 2001 Nov 18, 2001 - Leonids! Heavy fog rolled just before the peak
although loads of video footage was obtained both with the Meteor Tracker and the
wide field camera. See images above.
Meteor Tracker - Meteor in Taurus
- October 8, 2001
Images of a meteor obtained with the meteor tracker on Oct 8, 2001 at 23:43:06 UTC
Animated GIF 516 Kb - Slow Motion Real Video 454 Kb -
Image A - Image B - Image C
Two different frames, offset to show meteor's intra-frame progression
- September 18, 2001
09/18/01 Meteor Tracker image 834kb animated GIF
... was obtained using an optical detection and tracking system,
designed specifically to image meteors in high resolution. This is the first
meteor it has tracked - or it's "proof of concept" meteor. The meteor was possibly
as bright as magnitude 2 or so. The meteor was detected and tracked for 0.62 seconds.
The frames in the animation are of the chase and the meteor terminating.
- The instrument was developed in part with the collaboration of Dr. Peter Jenniskens
of the SETI Institute at NASA Ames Research Center and Peter Gural of SAIC.
Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign
[More info] Normal motion - Slow motion RealVideo
- July 12, 2001 ( 05:12:30 EDT) - Visually observed STS-104 main tank seperation after an
05:04 AM EST launch, from near Woodfield Maryland, while on the way to work. The seperation
began to occur exactly 8 minutes 30 seconds after launch, as the shuttle achieved orbit.
A persistant train of 5 or 6 degrees in length, appeared and lasted up to 5 seconds as
the sunlight, while below the horizon from my point of view, illuminated the trail.
Immediately after, the other rockets fired and appeared to be blue white in color
while previously, the flame had been distinctly orange in color. It was very spectacular!
- April Sunspots, long shadow.
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