{"id":7038,"date":"2016-06-14T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2016-07-26T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:27:05","slug":"our-1st-meteor-smoke-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/our-1st-meteor-smoke-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 1st meteor smoke trail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning at approx 03:07:12 EDT (07:07:12 UTC) we had a good, bright bolide\/fireball, and even better it was right overhead, and even better&#8230; it left a smoke trail!<br \/>\nThis is the first time  I can remember in over 14 years that we have had a smoke trail that was visible, at night, for over 20 minutes.<br \/>\nThis first image is from allsky1, which is a low light camera with wide angle lens that takes 80 second exposures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sco-20160614_0308_33.fit_.png-299x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sco-20160614_0308_33.fit_.png-299x225.jpg\" alt=\"sco-20160614_0308_33.fit.png\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sco-20160614_0308_33.fit_.png-299x225.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sco-20160614_0308_33.fit_.png-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sco-20160614_0308_33.fit_.png.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p>I went in and collect a couple of images before and all of the ones after that showed the trail, and made this animated .GIF second image:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160614_0307.gif\" alt=\"20160614_0307\" width=\"657\" height=\"495\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7041\" \/><br \/>\nNote the smoke trail that starts at the location of the meteor and drifts down and left over the next 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Even better yet&#8230; Allsky2 also captured the event:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ev_20160614_070712A_10A-299x224.png\" alt=\"ev_20160614_070712A_10A\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ev_20160614_070712A_10A-299x224.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ev_20160614_070712A_10A-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ev_20160614_070712A_10A.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><br \/>\nIt is a low light video camera taking many frames per second and then analyzing for motion in realtime.<br \/>\nAnalyzing its video of the event showed the rock coming up from the south, heading north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning at approx 03:07:12 EDT (07:07:12 UTC) we had a good, bright bolide\/fireball, and even better it was right overhead, and even better&#8230; it left a smoke trail! This is the first time I can remember in over 14 years that we have had a smoke trail that was visible, at night, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}