1-24 6:59pm CST Large fragmenting Fireball over north Texas

At approx 6:59:20 pm CST a large fireball flashed across the sky to the north-east of my location here in 

Hawley, tx.

Green fireball with orange flames and visible fragmentation traveling north-eastward

9-22 9:pmCST Large Fireball Over South-central Texas

A large fireball streaked over central and south Texas on the evening of 9-22-2013 at 9:00 PM CST.

It was bright enough to be seen from Lawton, Ok.

From my location here in Hawley, Tx it was to the South-East.

 

8-25 4:54 AM CST Bright Fast Fireball over Nw texas and NE new mexico

A bright exploding meteor lit up the sky over NorthWest Texas around 5 am this morning.

Reports of it have been received as far as New Mexico.

 

Forward scatter radios also picked it up.

 

Large (Possible) Persied fireball Caught on Camera at Hawley, Texas 8-13-2013 12:50:23 am

Large Bolide (fireball) Over North Texas during last night's Perseid Meteor Shower

This fireball was caught on all three of my cameras last night around 12:50 am CST

Second night of the perseid meteor shower peak.

Second Peak night of the Perseid meteorshower. This is a time lapse of the entire evening's meteor captures in color

 

 

and

 

 Black and White!

The 2013 Perseid Meteor Shower Begins!

The Perseid Meteor which peaks in August every year around the 12-13 is getting an early start!
The Perseid Shower is famous for producing more fireballs than any other meteor shower.
I've noticed an uptick in nightly meteor captures on my skycams for the last few nights.
Below is a small video I created from the captures on the nights of Aug 3-4.
Say tuned for more spectacular shows in the nights to come!

 

Large meteor explodes over russia!

A large meteor exploded over Russia this morning. The concussion from it's sonic boom blew out windows and walls and injured hundreds of people with shattered glass and debris.

This event demonstrates one of the dangers of some meteor events. The shockwave.
If a meteor is large enough it can create a sonic boom or pressure wave that can cause damage.

While the actual entry event of the meteor is shocking to see. The height that these events occur bring their own danger. People seeing or having heard about a meteor run out so see what they can see.
Meanwhile a shockwave from the event (if it's close enough to the ground) is moving outward from the detonation. At these heights. sound takes 1-2 minuets to reach the ground thus giving people time to run out and stand under windows and buildings/ The late arriving pressure wave from the meteor detonation hits and shatters glass and walls.
Here is a video of the meteor.


 Imagine yourself at work and someone runs in to says "a large meteor just went over!! IT left a huge cloud in the sky!"  Everyone runs out to look...



Boom! you're hit with flying glass!

Here's a video from inside an office when the shockwave hit



For more on this event visit
  http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/02/mbiq-detects-russia-fireball-meteor.html

Midnight Fireball!

A large fireball lit up the skies over Central Texas Last night around Midnight. (5:00 Universal Time)

Rainy Weather Meteor Radio Pings

Here in Central Texas it's been raining for the last few days and while I love the rain and we needed it badly. It really puts a damper on meteor observing! However it doesn't keep me from hearing meteors! In fact you can monitor meteors in this fashion even during the daytime!

I have my forward scatter setup which monitors a radio beam used by the U.S Govt to monitor space debris. This beam shoots up from Lake Kickapoo in north Texas near Archer City. If you live far enough away from it you cant pick the signal up directly but you can hear it as anything moves through the beam and reflects the signal back down to your antenna. In the Case of meteors this sounds like a "ping" or a "whoop" or even a long eerie whine or whistle in the case of larger meteors.

Here are a few small "pings" I picked up while it was cloudy.

Daytime Forward Scatter Detection

On Aug 31 at 19:16:32 GMT I had a large hit on my forward scatter receiver here in Hawley, Tx.

I've put together a video of the allsky camera video and the forward scatter audio synced to the same time frame. Daytime detections are hard to capture due to the glare of the sun and clouds in the image. I havent been able to see anything in the video yet but everyone is welcome to

 try! I'm hoping someone can see something in this video that I'm missing.

2012 Perseids

This year's Perseid meteor shower put on quite a show here in North Central Texas!

Composite Image: Allsky Camera Perseid Meteor shower Peak Night 8-12-2012

Video Compilation of all Meteor Detections : Perseid Meteor Shower Peak Night 8-12-2012

Large Fireball Over West Oklahoma and North Texas

This evening in the midst of Developing thunderstorms One of the flashes across the sky wasn't lightning! I large Bolide or Fireball came roaring to earth. Reports are coming in from Oklahoma Of sonic booms caused as the fireball streaked towards Earth.

Lyrid Meteorshower forwardscatter radar timelapse

I've taken the last three days of forwardscatter spectrographs and combined them into a timelapse video of the lyrid meteor shower. What you're seeing is a spectrograph display of the audio output from my forward scatter meteor radar. As meteors travel through the radar's beam they reflect a portion of the signal back causing a "ping" sound on the receiver. This audio if fed into software that generates a spectrogram image. These images are saved to disk 24/7. This is the result. It's about 17 mins long. 

As you watch you'll see lines that scroll up and down through the frame. These are aircraft passing through the radar beam. Meteors appear as small blips of color. Larger meteors appear as a bigger smear in the image. Large aircraft reflections also tend to have a larger fuzzy band above and below the main echo. Satellites passing through the beam appear as sharply diving diagonal lines.

Enjoy the show!

Lyrid Meteor shower DirectView camera timelapse

This years Lyrid Meteor Shower put on a pretty good show from my location. At least my Direct View camera

caught a good number of them. 

I've taken all the composite images and combined them into a timelapse video and composite image.  I hope you enjoy them!

 

What is the lyrid meteor shower??

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Lyrids are a meteor shower lasting from April 16 to April 26^[1] each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located in the constellation Lyra, peaking at April 22—hence they are also called the Alpha Lyrids or April Lyrids. The source of the meteor shower is particles of dust shed in the cometary tail generated by the periodic Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. The Lyrids have been observed for the past 2600 years

Nice exploding fireball over north Texas

Last night at 10:56 Universal time a fireball exploded in the skies over north texas.

the event was captured on my allsky camera.

The same event was also captured just on the edge of the frame on my direct view sprite monitoring cameras

Satellite Flashes

Occasionally... Well actually, Quite often my camera captures satellite Flashes. These are glints of sunlight that reflect off portions of satellites as they orbit the Earth.

Here's a little composite video of several such events.

Start of the Lyrids

The upcoming Lyrid Meteor shower peaks on Saturday. 

This is one of a few as it starts to "ramp up"

Below is this same meteor event as caught by my Friend's Sanida Camera in Oklahoma City!

A nice Taxday meteor

April 15th had a nice fireball streak across the skies over central texas

 

 

Long Fireball last night at 1:17 AM CST

After quite a quiet spell we finally had something flash across the skies here in central texas last night!

I fast moving fireball running almost west to east!

 

Sandia allsky Camera Composite image

Sandia Allsky Video

Color Allsky Camera Composite

Weather Cam at Centex Allsky Camera's location

Current Weather view at Centex Allsky's Location