Meteor from Alpha Capricornids Comet 169P/NEAT

Meteor from Alpha Capricornids Comet 169P/NEAT (Determined by UFOAnalyzer Software)
Mag -1.3
02:18:42 7th July 2014 (20140707_021842)

Wikipedia:

Alpha Capricornids is a meteor shower that takes place as early as 15 July and continues until around 10 August. The meteor shower was discovered by Hungarian astronomer Miklos von Konkoly-Thege in 1871.This shower has infrequent but relatively bright meteors, with some fireballs. Parent body is comet 169P/NEAT.

Graham

Nice capture Graham, do you have your meteor station setup for continuous monitoring form a permanent location now? Unfortunately didn’t manage to capture that event, your camera orientation is different to Cherryvalley Observatory’s. Armagh Observatory may have recorded that particular meteor event.

Best wishes and clear skies
Mike

Really good capture Graham. Does the UFOAnalyzer record the magnitude. If so, what was the magnitude? What limiting magnitude does your set go down too. I suspect Armagh recorded it, being far north from your location.

Eamonn

Thanks Mike, still not permanent yet... always on the long finger... seems I have really long fingers!! The camera on the tripod seems to be holding out pretty well, not much if any traffic in the room, I just have to make sure the star mask is still aligned prior to analysing. As for continuous I have it set to start detecting from 2300hrs-0400hrs.

Hi Eamonn, it marked it as being Mag. -1.283948, not 100% sure how accurate that is... so far for May the dimmest sporadic has been down about Mag. 3, as the skies get darker am sure it might capture dimmer objects.

I wouldn't mark it down as an 'Event'! more of an FYI the Alpha Capricornids are coming!

Graham

Just a composite of all sorts of hits for the past few weeks..

One from last night... 20140710_022039
'July Zeta Draconids'
Mag -5.27

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