SkyFit tutorial
I have finally recorded a detailed tutorial on how to perform astrometry and photometry calibration in SkyFit! Here is the Youtube video, enjoy!
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Geminids – Albuquerque NM, UTC 20181214
We are bringing up a network of RMS cameras in New Mexico, USA. We were fortunate to have seven cameras installed in time to catch one clear night of this year’s Geminid meteor shower. Four of the cameras are in the Albuquerque area (us0001, 2, 6, and 7). Cameras us0008 and 9 are located a …
How the Global Meteor Network came to be
So I guess many of you guys have heard about RMS and GMN online, but probably don’t know how it all came to be, and who are the ones to “blame” for all of this. So here it goes… The brief history of the Croatian Meteor Network The story starts about 12 or so years …
Meteor camera FOV visualization tool resurrected!
About 10 years ago Geert Barentsen wrote an awesome tool for visualizing fields of view (FOVs) of meteor cameras that was hosted on ESA webpages. Unfortunately it stopped working some years ago and the meteor community was left without this awesome tool! But, because the source code was available, we were able to resurrect and …
2018 Geminids on December 11 from Hum, Croatia
The RMS camera in Hum, Croatia had a good “harvest” of the Geminids as well, 517 meteors in total! In the near future the network in Istria will be expanded and meteor orbits will start to be computed on a daily basis. Stay tuned!
42 sprites recorded in one night from Hum, Croatia
The RMS systems are very prolific when it comes to meteors, but last night the camera in Hum, Croatia recorded a distant thunderstorm storm and 42 sprites above it! Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the …
RMS trajectories estimated using UFOOrbit
Inital test of the new RMS option, the conversion from the FTP_detectedinfo file to the UFOOrbit R90 format csv file, were done on a dataset recorded from November 16 to 18, 2018, from Croatia. Data from two RMS cameras, HR0010 and HR000A in Istria were used to produce CSV files which were imported into UFOOrbit. …
How about urban observations?
Up to the moment, all observations we made were from moreless dark sites, so here are couple of images taken few days ago from the center of Pula, Croatia, population of around 70 thousand and lots of light pollution. Visual limiting magnitude here rarely goes beyond +5M, during this night estimated to be around +4.5M. …
All-sky systems
We have recently started experimenting with all-sky lenses on IMX291 based cameras. The results are promising, we get magnitude +2.5 stars at 25 frames per second, and at 720p the all-sky lens gives an average pixel scale of 15 arcmin/px. Here is how the current setup looks like (we are still working on the dome …
Hello world!
This is the first post on GMN, hopefully there will be many more to come!