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Post by tmcewan on Jun 25, 2012 0:11:56 GMT
Some images from Glengarnock, Scotland:   |
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Post by Bill W on Jun 25, 2012 7:45:34 GMT
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.
cheers,
Bill.
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Post by andycav on Jun 25, 2012 12:43:34 GMT
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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Post by James Fraser on Jun 25, 2012 13:33:08 GMT
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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcnsyp5EVdE |
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Post by Frank on Jun 25, 2012 14:45:26 GMT
Very nice nlc Here in denmark was there rainclouds allover  Frank |
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Post by kendalstu on Jun 25, 2012 15:58:59 GMT
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Post by Julius on Jun 25, 2012 16:49:06 GMT
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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Post by Bill W on Jun 25, 2012 17:16:29 GMT
Hi, Here's the video from last night. I think my camera has slipped a little, need to re-adjust that tonight. youtu.be/Qu2UOhQ8Llocheers, Bill. |
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Post by olaf3sky on Jun 25, 2012 18:01:25 GMT
Some images from Glengarnock, Scotland: ... 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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Post by mikkok on Jun 25, 2012 18:29:25 GMT
I saw some faint NLC here in the south of Sweden the night between 23-24. No pics though...
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Post by Julius on Jun 25, 2012 21:19:16 GMT
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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Post by Bill W on Jun 26, 2012 8:44:59 GMT
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.
Cheers,
Bill.
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Post by Julius on Jun 26, 2012 20:27:33 GMT
Thanks for the info Bill. Do you run any event detection programs to detect meteors?
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Post by Bill W on Jun 26, 2012 21:56:16 GMT
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 meteorobserver.proboards.com/index.cgiIt'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! Cheers, Bill. |
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Post by Julius on Jun 27, 2012 22:34:51 GMT
Great, I will sure check it out.
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