The UK Meteor Network

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The UK Meteor Network is a citizen science project with 200+ members who've pointed cameras at the skies to see what they can see. Mainly meteors!
Websitehttps://www.ukmeteornetwork.org
Data Sitehttps://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk
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Aliens on our allsky camera.... :)

(or possibly a couple of amorous snails playing chase...)

A few of the Quadrantids we've seen so far...

The brightest was magnitude -7.33 and there were five confirmed fireballs. The average magnitude was about +1.

There were no meteorite dropping events unfortunately. The really bright event was over the sea. :(

Full report available here
https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2024/PER/index.html

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UK Meteor Data Archive

Meteor Observation Data

Well, its been a week since the Perseids peak, and i've finally had a chance to breathe, what with aurora at the same time!

But how did we do?

We captured 121,574 single-station detections from 219 cameras, with one station detecting nearly 1400 perseids.

75,761 single-station detections were matched with other detections and led to 8,239 confirmed Perseid meteor orbits and trajectories.

One matched event was picked up by 49 stations, which i think is a record for the UK.
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The brightest from the cameras for the night of 12/13th August 2024.
A nice meteor from a few minutes ago.

Just a few brightish ones last night and only 33 confirmed matches, thanks to the blanket of cloud.

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/latest/dailyreports/dailyreport.html

UK Meteor Data Archive

Meteor Observation Data

And a few more!
Some of the brightest meteors from last night 07/08 August. More to come!