monster (meteor) appeared in my video

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monster (meteor) appeared in my video

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Hi folks:

Sorry - not the green monster but a very bright fireball that had wandered into the FOV today 2:22am. Any one happen to look at the constellation of Norma...

http://www.ykchia.com/aprmayjun.htm

Too bad the evening -8 Iridium 46 was spoiled by the clouds...


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great fire ball. probably no one saw it. what a pity.
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Hi,
WOW! You very lucky... may be can try buying TOTO tomorrow... hee hee :P

Have a nice day.
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Nice catch!

Any idea why the sudden brightening at that part? Did the meteor explode you think?

What do you think are the chances that a meteorite can be found in Singapore?
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Nah, at the look of it, it arent heading directly towards the ground. so it would spend more time in the upper atmmosphere happily burning up.
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Oooo... Nice!

Hmm... what are the chances of catching a fireball (or even miserable bright meteors) in Singapore anyway? Seems like never for me...
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Hi :

They are out there! It all depends whether how long you lookup. Instead of cranking my neck - I have chosen to use a look-up video system. The Field of Vision (FOV) is ~ 14x12 degree - even with this little 'window' typical catch is around 3-4 meteors per 6 hrs ( when the meteor activity are low) are common for our cloudy, light polluted sky.

For a nice big fireball to appear within this little 'window' so far I have captured only a very few handful ( 1-2 ) per year weather permitting.

Keep looking...

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Post by A 5 YeaR Old »

good enough.all i had was 2 meteors out of my window in 10 mins at 4am
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