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NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Thread Started on Jun 25, 2012, 12:11am »

Some images from Glengarnock, Scotland:

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #1 on Jun 25, 2012, 7:45am »

Hi,
Nice one last night. First picked up visually around 11.30pm local.
H lowered as sun dipped down towards true midnight then very interesting to record the cloud blow out to S/SW.
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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #2 on Jun 25, 2012, 12:43pm »

Hello, yes very nice one last night. Haven't been out 'properly' observing NLCs for a couple of years and it was very pleasurable. Reminded me of watching some of the greater displays a few years back.

I note I am almost exactly a degree south of you Tom so your images will make for interesting comparison to my own observations.

Andy

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #3 on Jun 25, 2012, 1:33pm »

Hi,
Some great images there. A live video from last night. I had lots of low cloud so this was a very limited view. Canon 550D + Samyang 14 and 35mm lenses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcnsyp5EVdE

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #4 on Jun 25, 2012, 2:45pm »

Very nice nlc
Here in denmark was there rainclouds allover :'(

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #5 on Jun 25, 2012, 3:58pm »

So THAT'S what I missed because of the ******** Cumbrian cloud... again...

The pic shows what I saw around midnight. Full report here:

http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2012/06....teur-astronomy/

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #6 on Jun 25, 2012, 4:49pm »

Beautiful pictures Tom. I was as Frank showered with rain. But tonight the forecast is clear skies. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #7 on Jun 25, 2012, 5:16pm »

Hi,
Here's the video from last night. I think my camera has slipped a little, need to re-adjust that tonight.

http://youtu.be/Qu2UOhQ8Llo

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #8 on Jun 25, 2012, 6:01pm »

Jun 25, 2012, 12:11am, tmcewan wrote:

Some images from Glengarnock, Scotland:
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Good to see that you finally had good luck, Tom!
And of course congratulations to all observers.
I was clouded out again here in Northern Germany...

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #9 on Jun 25, 2012, 6:29pm »

I saw some faint NLC here in the south of Sweden the night between 23-24. No pics though...

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #10 on Jun 25, 2012, 9:19pm »

Great timelapse Bill. Could you provide som details of you skycamera? I wan't to put one up on the roof for the days I can't stay up to look for the NLCs.

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #11 on Jun 26, 2012, 8:44am »

Hi,
The system is really quite crude as far as things go now.
I use a low light level CCTV camera (an unbranded frame integrating type) and a cheap zoom lens. The video output goes to a USB frame grabber and I record a frame every 12 secs (sometimes 10 seconds). The interval is just to keep the file size down a bit.
It's quite basic but it's produced some decent results for what it is.
If I can find the original leaflet that came with the camera I'll let you know the exact details.
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Bill.

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #12 on Jun 26, 2012, 8:27pm »

Thanks for the info Bill. Do you run any event detection programs to detect meteors?

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #13 on Jun 26, 2012, 9:56pm »

Hi,
As for meteors, Yes! There is a meteor thread in the general board of this forum where such things are discussed "out of season" by the year round die hards also myself and a few others have a meteor observers forum at http://meteorobserver.proboards.com/index.cgi
It's shut down for the summer as most of the observers are UK based and it's a bit too light for regular meteor observing at the moment. Should be back in business for the Perseids. Please feel free to join in!
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Bill.

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Re: NLC 2012 June 24-25
« Reply #14 on Jun 27, 2012, 10:34pm »

Great, I will sure check it out.

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