May-June '03 (Meteors)
"May saw the return of hot and dry night ... I continue my nightly survey ...sticking out my watec camera from my 12th storey study window. Here are some static frames of these high speed shooting 'stars' as they plunged into our protective but thin atmosphere unnoticed by the slumbering neighborhood "
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1) A Meteor shooting upwards passed the triangular stars of phi-nu-mu Centaurus [May 06 '03 SSE lasting 0.36 sec] This is one of the brightest meteor seen in this set up.	2) A faint long meteor going downwards pass omicron Lupus (the Wolf) 22:55 May 6' 03. Video play back analysis indicated the meteor was visible at a greater length than indicated here.
	<< -- A star chart showing the above two FOVs and more. Are you able to match the star fields of 1) and 2) with this chart? Find the hot -spots below.
3) Bright Meteor : May 22@ 23:33:01 The distorted 'h' shaped stars pattern were n Lupus. This 'spear-like meteor' was caugtht on sony video walkman too!	4) Meteor near the 'sting' of Scorpio. May 24 12:34 am.Can you spot M7 globular cluster? Look for this hot-spot. Compare this image with the one below 1/2 hr later to see how much the background stars had shifted (due to earth's rotation)
I found a 135 minutes LP Digital Tape ($18.20) from Sony - which means fewer tape changes.	5) A fast meteor glazed pass Scorpion's 'Sting'. "...towards the end of an hour long recording I happened to glance at the monitor and a meteor appeared within 2 second! ". On video tape too. Direction was towards bottom of frame.
6) May 26 '03 A fine meteor going pass Lupus. The meteor were detected in 20 /25 frames in raw DV AVI ( SP only flagged 8 here). This translate to a good 0.8 sec or close to 1 second duration.	7) June beauty Lepus- Towards the end of the hour-long recording, LM plunged, however one meteor was caught. Clouds were already drifting in, threatening to swallow FOV. I rewound the DV tape and recovered the meteor. This one lasted 1.5 seconds. A small meteor with a tiny tail visible through out the trajectory ( towards bottom frame) in Lupus.
VIDEO of one of the meteors presented here ( 534KB) . You might need to download a freeDV player here to view the mpg2 file.