NSW Automatic Meteor Detection System
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2nd Mar 2004 12:38:39 UT Peak Brightness -4.9 mag
18th March 2004 13:06:39 UT Peak Brightness -4.0 mag
A choice Northern Taurid. 13 Nov 2004 12:28:47 UT Shows a 20 degree trail and a beautiful terminal flash (approx -5.0 mag).
A very bright meteor recorded on 9th May 2005 at 18:52:20 UT peaking at -5.5 magnitude.
Getting
brighter. Recorded 20th May
2005 at 14:07:48 UT This one peaked at -6.6 magnitude.
*The 12 day old
moon (nearly full) is just outside the field to the upper right and is
the source of the internal lens reflections
diagonally across the frame.
The pointers and southern cross are below
it in the bottom right quadrant.
Whoa! They just keep coming. This one was -6.0 magnitude at the terminal flash. Recorded 04th June 2005 at 16:32:07 UT
This
meteor was recorded with the 2 camera system on 9th May 2006.
A bright
moon is at the top of the north facing camera field. It was nearly 100
degrees long and peaked at around magnitude -5.
The gaps are where the
computer dropped video frames.
The biggest one recorded by the cameras at Mudgee. 2010 April 12th
On the
night of 12th April 2010 during an imaging session in my observatory, I
was startled when the whole place lit up like daylight.
The overhead
meteor camera caught most of this fireball heading south down
past the tail of Scorpius but dropped a lot of frames during the
central part. The software gave a peak magnitude of -5.3 at the end of
the first section (center of frame) but the system was clearly
saturated after that.
It would have been many times brighter than that, as shown by
the huge flash near the end (lower left corner).
This fireball was also witnessed by several observers at an
annual star party held at
Mudgee Observatory , who also said it lit everything
up
like day.
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