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Fireball 1

2nd Mar 2004
12:38:39 UT
Peak Brightness -4.9 mag


4th Mar 2004
14:01:00 UT
Peak Brightness -2.0 mag

Fireball 2


Fireball 3

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).

Bright Northern Taurid


-5.5 mag meteor

A very bright meteor
recorded on 9th May 2005
at 18:52:20 UT
peaking at -5.5 magnitude.


The brightest meteor so far recorded with this system.
Recorded 20th May 2005
at 14:07:48 UT
This one peaked at -6.6 magnitude and would have
lit up the whole sky as well as the ground.
*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.

-6.6 brightest yet!


Whoah! 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 degree long and peaked at around -5.

The gaps are where the computer dropped video frames.

 


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