We're into September and only just starting to see clear skies at night, there's a LOT of cloud around these days, is that a worry for the future? Anyway, 16th was a beautiful clear night so I set up the camera outside facing towards the Angus Glens as usual. I couldn't resist wandering out every so often and saw quite a few satellites and at least one meteor or shooting star right above us.
You might need to click on these photos to get them full size if you want to see some of the objects, maybe even turn your brightness up.
9:14 and there's a faint Aurora showing
I couldn't see it with the naked eye but the camera picked out a faint Aurora going on, the Plough is coming down from the top left.
I usually end up standing out there in the dark in my dressing gown, hearing noises and hoping there's no beasties creeping up on me!
10:44 - bright meteor
Satellites tend to move in a straight line across the sky and leave a steady trail, these objects are just a brief, bright flash, so this one only appears in one shot. I take a shot every 30 second, well, the camera does :)
10:46 - bright meteor heading South
I could pull up a lounger and lie out here sometimes
23:15 - Really bright meteor
Keep in mind that these objects only appear once and very briefly.
11:19 - Brief flash above the Plough
23:19 - seconds later, another
Meteor and Satellite
Look closely in the image above, there's a bright shooting thing to the left of the hill and a darker streak to the right, probably a satellite.
Aircraft and satellite
I've added the image above purely to show the difference between aeroplane and a satellite or other object! ;)
Meteor and satellites
In this one there are two satellites about to criss-cross, obviously at different heights but also that bright streak above the hill.
11:54 - bright streak over Knock of Formal
When I got up this morning and went out to recover the camera, it was covered in dew! Hope it's not been damaged! The bright halo in the middle bottom is caused by dew on the lens.
The video is made up of over 300 photos all stitched together to form a time-lapse video that's why the camera was left out all night so, when you watch this, remember it took well over two hours to get all the shots that make it up. It has also been slowed down so we can see all the zoomy bits and aurora dancing over the hills. You'll see an aircraft fly through about half way through the clip, from top right to lower left.
