Sporadic meteor composition from UK006E
Nothing special, just a nice composition with Jupiter, the Pleiades and Hyades.
20230917_004143.396_UK
Bolide captured with UK007J
Not detected by RMS software
Very bright fireball over Scotland 2023-02-05 UK007J
Details here: https://archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/reports/2023/orbits/202302/20230205/20230205_022512.269_UK/index.html
Data from UKMON
Mark McIntyre of UKMON says on the GMN forum:
Bright visual mag -5.9 fireball over Scotland last night. Abs mag at least -9. Asteroidal in origin, travelled about 50km over NE Scotland between Aviemore and Dufftown.
Unfortunately going too fast I think – entry velocity 24 km/s, slowed down to ~15km/s before disintegrating at ~35km, so not much chance of ground debris which anyway would probably have gone into the sea north of Elgin.
We are getting a lot more coverage of Scotland now, several cameras onboarded in the last few months and more to come.
Those are mostly ASE cameras that we’ve been adding. At an abs mag of almost -9, that’s brighter than the brightest from 2022, caught by my UK006E during the Perseids at -6.77.
EdinburghW Station report 2022
During this period, 26054 single station detections were collected by cameras in EdinburghW. including 22672 sporadics. 2955 of the detections matched with other stations. Orbit and trajectory solutions were calculated for these matches. The brighest up to ten confirmed matches are shown below.
| DateTime | Magnitude | Shower |
| 20220802_232136.430_UK | -6.77 | PER |
| 20220803_015529.918_UK | -3.77 | PER |
| 20220809_015122.862_UK | -3.58 | PER |
| 20221103_195720.568_UK | -3.18 | SLD |
| 20221015_002822.743_UK | -2.95 | ATI |
| 20221121_012849.458_UK | -2.87 | spo |
| 20220808_224828.459_UK | -2.83 | PER |
| 20221005_223628.837_UK | -2.81 | OCT |
| 20221206_011845.088_UK | -2.73 | DAD |
| 20220812_011324.904_UK | -2.71 | PER |
Brilliant Geminids December 2022
Proving to be a very prolific shower, better even than the Perseids:
Perseids 2022 UK006E / UK007J
It was a good year for capturing Perseids, the first with my 2 meteor cameras. Here are some of the detected stacks from my Istrastream feeds.
Another bright Perseid Fireball 2022-08-09
Almost as bright as the previous one with an absolute mag. of -6.0, but further away so only an apparent mag of -3.6.
Summary for Event ----------------- Updated: 2022-08-09 08:00:15 shower ID 7 PER (Perseids) Lg 60.16° Bg 38.63° Vg 59.61km/s mass 1.34424g, abs. mag -6.0 best visual mag -3.6 Path Details ------------ start -1.77° 55.29° 122.53km end -2.15° 55.16° 78.24km Orbit Details ------------- Semimajor axis -148.00A.U., eccentricity 1.01, inclination 113.04°, Period nanY, LA Sun 136.19°,
© UK Meteor Observation Network
2022-08-02 Perseid Fireball
This is an impressive one that leaves a vapour trail lasting several seconds, mag -6.9. Didn’t register on RMS detections as it was so close and saturated the sensor.
Updated manually by Mark McIntyre to include UK006E data.
Summary for Event ----------------- Updated: 2022-08-03 14:28:43 shower ID 7 PER (Perseids) Lg 55.19° Bg 38.86° Vg 57.23km/s mass 2.29762g, abs. mag -6.9 best visual mag -6.8 Path Details ------------ start -1.81° 56.14° 150.44km end -2.74° 55.64° 80.08km Orbit Details ------------- Semimajor axis 6.09A.U., eccentricity 0.85, inclination 110.92°, Period 15.05Y, LA Sun 130.34°, last Perihelion 2022-07-08
Bright Perseid 2022-07-31 23:05 UT
Saw it outside and then found it on the meteor camera. Data from UKMON:
shower ID 7 PER (Perseids) Lg 50.74° Bg 38.96° Vg 58.81km/s mass 0.54304g, abs. mag -4.4 best visual mag -2.0 Path Details ------------ start -1.44° 55.83° 123.61km end -1.97° 55.55° 85.49km Orbit Details ------------- Semimajor axis 16.25A.U., eccentricity 0.94, inclination 112.52°, Period 65.48Y, LA Sun 128.41°, last Perihelion 2022-07-12
© UK Meteor Observation Network
First Perseid of 2022 detected
Pat Devine’s camera UK0074 and mine UK006E detected a very ordinary one, showed by the UKMON data.
Summary for Event ----------------- Updated: 2022-07-25 06:08:22 shower ID 7 PER (Perseids) Lg 46.41° Bg 40.26° Vg 55.17km/s mass 0.01683g, abs. mag 0.4 best visual mag 0.8 Path Details ------------ start -2.70° 55.59° 111.93km end -2.87° 55.51° 98.88km Orbit Details ------------- Semimajor axis 3.78A.U., eccentricity 0.75, inclination 107.74°, Period 7.33Y, LA Sun 121.75°, last Perihelion 2022-06-28
© UK Meteor Observation Network
2022 Edinburgh W monthly reports
Reports generated by UKMON for UK006E (facing SE) and UK007J (facing N)
https://archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/reports/2022/stations/EdinburghW/index.html
Station report for EdinburghW for 2022
Last updated: 2022-09-22 14:04:09
During this period, 4616 single station detections were collected by cameras in EdinburghW. including 3956 sporadics. 654 of the detections matched with other stations. Orbit and trajectory solutions were calculated for these matches. The brighest up to ten confirmed matches are shown below.
| DateTime | Magnitude | Shower |
| 20220802_232136.430_UK | -6.77 | PER |
| 20220803_015529.918_UK | -3.77 | PER |
| 20220809_015122.862_UK | -3.58 | PER |
| 20220808_224828.459_UK | -2.83 | PER |
| 20220812_011324.904_UK | -2.71 | PER |
| 20220807_221332.682_UK | -2.59 | PER |
| 20220803_015529.137_UK | -2.23 | PER |
| 20220811_024102.700_UK | -2.11 | PER |
| 20220811_024103.466_UK | -2.08 | spo |
| 20220731_230543.157_UK | -2.04 | PER |
GMN meteor plot 2022-04-01 01:58:16.948148
A bright meteor, captured by my camera UK006E, also seen and matched by 4 other stations.
Mag. -2.55
Duration 0.78s
V avg 67.5 km/s
Height beg/end: 110 km / 96 km
Shower: TAL (what is this?)
GMN meteor plot 2022-03-27 22:36:11.685049
A bright meteor, captured by my camera UK006E, also seen and matched by 8 other stations.
Mag. -2.90
Duration 1.20s
V avg 42.97 km/s
Height beg/end: 111 km / 86 km
Sporadic
New meteor camera first detections
As part of the Global Meteor Network I have added a new camera on the edge of Edinburgh, built following the GMN wiki instructions. Scotland doesn’t seem to have many and definitely needs more.
Still in the early config stages but this is the first detection saved as an animated GIF. I don’t plan on posting these here all the time but these are the first!
My azimuth seems to be about 120° which is what I was aiming for.
2022-03-13 02:22:58 UT
2022-03-15 02:06:15 UT
And from the second night, much better:
This is my detection coverage.
Calibrated azimuth: 120.5°, altitude 49.5°
