Sprite Lightning and A meteor in Crux

  With Tiangung 1 reentries on April fool day in my mind.... last night i went to Space Track and download the TLE ...

  SPRITE Woke up and find a cloudy sky outside. I glanced at the wall clock ... thinking I should shut the system down instead of the scheduled 7am automatically.   Luckily I didn't stop the gazing ccd /lens much earlier.

    As I strolled through the captured frames through a long list of cloud-filled sky. Then this sprite peak-hold image jumped out at me. There was another clip where only the top 'tentacle' was seen. I bet a group of sprites was exhibiting themselves nearby.  I want a closer look - the 25mm Avenir f 0.95 manual iris lens and Watec 902HUltimage.  The time stamp says 6:32

Sprite caught in 25mm f0.95 lens. Ufocature sw

Partial Sprite seen with a few tentacles

Another Deja Vu  -  As I trained the lens to centre on the Compact southern cross Crux i had the intention of why not getting a meteor flash by the Cross.  ( did this thinking many years ago and i got it too).  Mum took a month holiday so i stick out the lens from this unit.

If they come you will be captured.  A proven bw reliable set up but migrating to  a color mirror-less camera and high video rate system will start as soon as i got some decent sky and meteor streams picking up after April

More for aesthetic than anything else.  Crux or the Southern Cross giving you an idea of the lens FOV too

Humanity Star March 09 2018 flashes images

Humanity Star March 09 2018 Passages through False Cross Vela

    Using Virtual dub to step through the individual flashes.

    First, a combination plot showing the series of flashes of varying brightness as detected by Ufocapture software. I hit the rec button when the time is coming and hit again to stop recording. The peak hold images through the exposure will flag the Humanity Star flashes.

    Humanity star travel upwards from bottom to top within the red lined box

    The followings are individual frames seen from using a VirtualDub slider to step through the individual flash

Humanity Star brighter than delta Vela

HS is ~ as bright than delta vela ( mg 1.95 )

Humanity Star - Flashes by Canopus March 06 2018

Humanity Star 

From heavens-above for my location - Humanity Star ( HS) Mag +5.1 passing close to easily recognisable Canopus on March 06 2018 ~20:24 before entering earth's shadow.  Canopus is visible through my sitting room window.

But there are clouds

Clouds were there and luckily sky cleared and the mag 6 + stars visible

Using Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software, I hit the button around 20:24:13 and let it records 3 minutes. The resulting peakhold images revealed clearly detected flashing 'dots' per the heavens-above plot.

I tried replay the avi file and managed to detect a flash at 20:24:41. Then after a few attempts managed 2+1 additional flashes.  I also tried stacking the avi using Registax which had no benefit for very short tiny flashes.  THe canon setup didnt see anything as i started the remote release too late.

Canon G5x and Watec 902h2/ Avenir 25mm f0.95

Humanity Star Path 

Screen showing the series of blue dots marking HS flashes

Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software - Stars trailed except for the brief satellite flashes

Resources : on HS

G5X gave pretty good stellar magnitude too after histogram stretching