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The hyperlink on home page "Play last 24 hours movie " doesn't seems to work.
Sometimes the followed link (http://nightskylive.net/worldmap/wm-movie.gif) says that it contains errors while some time it doesn't say anything.
Is this error due to cloud overlaying or is it a software bug?

Each CONCAM (.jpg) image is labeled with a time stamp and other information on the corners of the image. But sometimes it is hard to see these labeling especially the time stamp as in case of Hanle station ( blue letters on black background). http://nightskylive.net/ha/ha050709/ha050709ut215648p.jpg...

following are the plots for the Tau & Eta Puppis which are constant stars according to alcyone.de This plot shows Delta Mag Vs Truncated Julian Day (TJD). The magnitude change is within 0.1 m http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/summer/tau-can.jpg This is same as the above plot except that here ...

The below GIF shows the comet Machholz on Jan 09, 2005 at HL station.



Below is large file
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/09comet.gif

Heres the comet movie for 3 nights at Cerro Pachon on 19, 20 & 21 Dec.
Comet marked with the arrow. (file size is around 2.3 MB)

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.gif

Here is the composite of few meteors during Perseids 2004.
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/perseids2004.jpg

Below are the attached Perseids 2004 light curves (with error bars), we wish to present for the poster session for AAS. Begining with faint meteros to bright meteor light curves. We can see the light peak change from almost symmetrical light curves for faint meteors to light curves having peak at th...

Here is the link to AAVSO's photometry discussion archives.
http://mira.aavso.org/pipermail/aavso-photometry/

A recent release from space.com that a "Small Asteroid Passes Between Satellites and Earth "
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/aster ... 41222.html

Probably this is the comet machholz, circled in black from MK station
also the map of this comet's path is here.

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/images/04Q2/q2-2.gif

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.jpg

Another Geminids from CP
http://nightskylive.net/cp/cp041211/cp0 ... 35236p.jpg

A bright meteor looks to be originating from Gemini constellations. http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl041208/hl041208ut124451p.jpg http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl041208/hl041208ut124451p.jpg http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl041208/hl041208ut153819p.jpg http://nightskylive.net/hl/hl041208/hl041208ut153819p.jpg

Vic Muzzin wrote:Matt and I have recreated the movie files for january, they are now available online. Once everyone has used these files we will delete them and create the movies for Feb.

Hey Vic,
where these movie files are located?

Lior,
This calculations looks very promising. This would be really helpful in finding atleast approximate location of a meteorite fall on the earth. This would be another vantage point for NSL.

Did we hear anything about the "cosmic trail", detected in one of the dark frame?

Tilvi, Indeed this is a dark frame. That is why I think it is not a meteor. Dark frames do not have jpgs on the server, but you can examine the FITS file itself at: http://nightskylive.net/mk/mk041016/mk041016ut093141D.fits The FITS image is even more impressive than the JPG. Examining the FITS fil...

Lior, If this is a cosmic ray and not instrument fault, then its really inteteresting. Can be a discovery. Because it looks like that this cosmic ray source is really moving so fast and giving out such cosmic hits, which resembles a moving meteoroid. I assume that this FITS file is a Dark frame whic...

I have been thinking on this for a while. What we have been doing till now with the NSL data is , try do to some science out of the data which is available from the CONCAM's. And what is happening is that, especially for the variability of stars, we are forced to do variability of stars which aren;t...

Source: http://www.meteorscatter.net/metshw.htm

The Orionids meteor shower lasts from Oct 02 - Nov 11, peaks on Oct 21 st, 2004 / 0300UT±48hrs
ZHR : 20 meteors/hour,velocity 66.4km/sec,
several sub-maxima, timing & ZHR based on statistical analysis of past maxima

Vic,
Thats a good base. I think from these data sets, we have now enough confidence , atleat for HL and MK stations, to do systematic photometry study of stars.

Here are two images (plane tracks?) seen at both, HL and Mk station. Would be a good object to calculate the parallex.

...comments? I have problems with english, so perhaps I've misunderstood you. Also, I come from digital image processing backgrounds (Kodak POS photo voodoo ;) ), so I will use other words here. If I understand you, you average "important" pixel values in X and then Y directions, and then...

Heres I am posting a message from AAVSO list which describes in short the CCD sensitivity artefacts, -------------------------- lou krajci wrote: > The last two nights I've been imaging V417 Lyr (19 08 39.1 +30 43 09) to > determine some eclipse timings for this EB. A couple arcminutes to the > west...

http://nightskylive.net/asterisk/templates/subSilver/images/concam_logo.jpg Just found some more information about this earthgrazer captured by MK CONCAM during Leonids 2001. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/earthgrazer.jpg Another research paper abstract on the same is here http://www.scienced...