Event Log
2023Nov03 - Now at 12 1/2 years! Time for some upgrades!
2023Sept - Two major tree cut down in the eastern side of the camera.. opens up the sky a LOT towards Montreal. A 3rd tree to the SW was also brought down, also opening a little bit of sky.
2023 Jan - replaced hard drive
2022Nov22 - Up and running sine 2011 June... 11 1/2 years! Wow!
2021June - Tenth anniversary!
2020Nov02 - The system has now been running for over nine years.
2019July11 - Computer dropped off local network, replaced cabled and switches, now online again, down for maybe 1 day.
2018Jan20 - System unavailable during computer maintenance
2017 Nov 21 - should be back up and connected again.. will see results later this morning.
2017 Nov 18 - network connectivity problems means we cannot process the daily imagery. Working on this ...
2017 Oct 11 - one of two RAID drives died, replacement for bad one soon.
2017 August 29 - new +-12vdc power supply installed, now powering the 12vdc circulation fan and the 24vdc heater. No more condensation!
2017 July 04 - working mostly continuously since June 23rd in the same orientation, without heaters or circulation fans.. need +-12vdc power supply, which will probably not be until mid August.
2017 June 22 - cleaned inside and outside of dome with isopropyl alcohol, rotated housing 90 deg.. the wrong way! Trying to get north back to the top again. Will fix tomorrow.
2017 June 21 - new camera up and running... was the intermittently bad power supply all along!
2017 June 16 - new replacement allsky camera installed. This is the 3rd in 5 years.
2017May16 - replaced allsky lowlight camera with surveillance camera as troubleshooting step. computer and frame grabber worked! must be dead camera itself. replacement shipping in next week or two.
2017 April 18 - system appears to have suffered a camera hardware failure since last night session. Troubleshooting in progress...
2017 April 05 - We have been changing the start and stop time as daylight increases and darkness decreases. Today we also switch from 80sec exposures to 60sec exposures to get an easier to analyze time sense. Will evaluate after a week or so of dimmer images from shorter exposures.
2017 January 28 - condensation continues, now only at lower elevations in the dome, not at the top. The next plan is to remove the dome from the housing and reseal it to the housing.
2017 January 14 - condensation continuing. remove dessicant packs, wipe down dome.
2017 January 02 replaced flat gasket with round gasket in the hopes of stopping the condensation. heater working, fan working, cleaned off condensation
2016 December 04 - opened up housing to clean off condensation
2016 October 09 - opened up housing to clean off condensation
2016 March 20th - opened up housing to clean off condensation
2015 July 02 - condensation inside dome, opened, dried, removed 2 small bags of dessicant and added 2 large bags of new dessicant.
made sure base gasket was closed and tight fitting.
2015 June 17 - condensation inside dome, opened, dried
2015 April 07 - condensation inside dome, opened, dried
2014 November 07 - camera orientation set so long axis is east-west. Now we are waiting for a clear sky so some star calibration can take place. No events will be recorded until after that event.
2014November04 - new replacement camera system #10-2and power supply installed. Still needs to be rotated to previous orientation
2014August22 - power supply, fan and camera failures. system offline until further notice
2014April07 - Nice overhead firefall at 07:20:36 UT (03:20:36 EDT)
2014March21 - caught major St. Thomas Event on 20140319 at 02:24 UTC
2013September04- cleaned dome.. some bad bird had left behind something.
2013February13 - added code to create summary image of each night convert ev_*.png -evaluate-sequence max summary.png
2013February11 - moving all notable events into /events/ folder for permanent URL linkage.
2012Dec15 - replaced old camera with new camera in an attempt to get rid of condensation issue - new camera not functioning. Replace new camera with old camera and added 4" dryer vent inside to aim the airflow onto the dome better. No more Condensation!
2012Dec13 - still more code fixing
2012Dec12 - automated scripts should now be functional to save and display a weeks worth of data. will take another few days to fill out the week.
2012Dec10 - still tweaking the code
2012Dec09 - added daily (08:30) upload of all event images but not video (too large!)
2012Oct20 - cleaned condensation again, installed really big dessicant package... HUGE!
2012oct10- still condensation!
2012oct09 - condensation again, dried inside, removed dessicant packages thinking they might be the problem.
2012oct08 - condensation again, dried inside
2012oct 06 - condensation again, dried inside, raised temp setting from 20 to 25 deg C
2012sept28 - condensation back again. dried inside of some again. Added new large dessicant bag.
2012sept24 - cleaned inside of dome of condensation and fog. 2nd time since system went operational. There are two small dessicant packages inside.. maybe not enough.
2012august08- set up this web page
2012june08 - system installed and operational camera 10-1
AllskyCam reference info & references
https://www.amsmeteors.org/ American Meteor Society Fireball reports
University of Western Ontario Meteor Physics Group (UWO)
North York Astro Assoc (NYAA) Lorenz Observatory All Sky Camera [Oak Heights]
Cloudbait Observatory (Colorado USA) *
Allsky camera
Moonglow (Missouri USA)
From: www.namnmeteors.org
Shower Activity Maximum Radiant V r ZHR IMO
Period Date km/s Code
h m °
Antihelion Source Dec 10-Sep 10 n/a Various 30 3.0 4 ANT
Quadrantids Dec 28-Jan 12 Jan 03 15 20 +49 41 2.1 120 QUA
alpha-Centaurids Jan 28-Feb 21 Feb 08 14 00 -59 56 2.0 6 ACE
gamma-Normids Feb 25-Mar 22 Mar 14 15 56 -50 56 2.4 6 GNO
Lyrids Apr 16-Apr 25 Apr 22 18 04 +34 49 2.1 18 LYR
pi-Puppids Apr 15-Apr 28 Apr 23 07 20 -45 18 2.0 var. PPU
eta-Aquarids Apr 19-May 28 May 06 22 32 -01 66 2.4 55 ETA
eta-Lyrids May 03-May 14 May 08 19 08 +44 43 3.0 3 ELY
June Bootids Jun 22-Jul 02 Jun 27 14 56 +48 18 2.2 var. JBO
Piscis Austrinids Jul 15-Aug 10 Jul 28 22 44 -30 35 3.2 5 PAU
Southern delta-Aquarids Jul 12-Aug 23 Jul 30 22 40 -16 41 3.2 16 SDA
alpha-Capricornids Jul 03-Aug 15 Jul 30 20 28 -10 23 2.5 5 CAP
Perseids Jul 17-Aug 24 Aug 12 03 12 +58 59 2.2 100 PER
kappa-Cygnids Aug 03-Aug 25 Aug 17 19 04 +59 25 3.0 3 KCG
Aurigids Aug 28-Sep 05 Sep 01 06 04 +39 66 2.5 6 AUR
Sep. epsilon-Perseids Sep 05-Sep 21 Sep 09 03 12 +40 64 3.0 5 SPE
Draconids Oct 06-Oct 10 Oct 08 17 28 +54 20 2.6 var. DRA
Southern Taurids Sep 10-Nov 20 Oct 10 02 08 +09 27 2.3 5 STA
delta-Aurigids Oct 10-Oct 18 Oct 11 05 36 +44 64 3.0 2 DAU
epsilon-Geminids Oct 14-Oct 27 Oct 18 06 48 +27 70 3.0 3 EGE
Orionids Oct 02-Nov 07 Oct 21 06 20 +16 66 2.5 20 ORI
Leo Minorids Oct 19-Oct 27 Oct 24 10 48 +37 62 3.0 2 LMI
Northern Taurids Oct 20-Dec 10 Nov 12 03 52 +22 29 2.3 5 NTA
Leonids Nov 06-Nov 30 Nov 17 10 08 +22 71 2.5 15 LEO
alpha-Monocerotids Nov 15-Nov 25 Nov 21 07 48 +01 65 2.4 var. AMO
Phoenicids Nov 28-Dec 09 Dec 06 01 12 -53 18 2.8 var. PHO
Puppid-Velids Dec 01-Dec 15 Dec 07 08 12 -45 40 2.9 10 PUP
Monocerotids Nov 27-Dec 17 Dec 09 06 40 +08 42 3.0 2 MON
sigma-Hydrids Dec 03-Dec 15 Dec 12 08 28 +02 58 3.0 3 HYD
Geminids Dec 04-Dec 17 Dec 14 07 28 +33 35 2.6 120 GEM
Comae Berenicids Dec 12-Jan 23 Dec 16 11 40 +18 65 3.0 3 COM
December Leo Minorids Dec 05-Feb 04 Dec 19 10 44 +30 64 3.0 5 DLM
Ursids Dec 17-Dec 26 Dec 22 14 28 +76 33 3.0 10 URS
Radiant positions are listed in right ascension and declination coordinates. The column "V" is the velocity in kilometers per second. The letter "r" is the population index. "Code" is the abbreviation for the shower that observers should use when reporting meteor observations. Periodic showers are listed as "var" under the ZHR column. Some showers may have more than one maximum.
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