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All-sky news
Cropped movie frames, courtesy of Sandia National Lab, have been reoriented in these A/CC renditions as if looking up at the sky north of Albuquerque at 5:15am May 6th.
High catch: The A/CC news "cover" Saturday showed a meteor caught at dawn by the all-sky camera at Sandia National Lab on the south side of Albuquerque, New Mexico. That was the third meteor recorded in a 52-minute period, and Chris Peterson tells A/CC that Sandia's second meteor that morning, at 5:15am (see images above), was caught also by his Cloudbait Observatory all-sky camera near Guffey in central Colorado, and by another camera in the Denver Museum network at Alamosa. He says "this meteor exploded about 20 miles NE of Farmington, NM, right on the NM/CO border, at a rather high height of around
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51 miles [82 km.]. It started about 40 miles east of Farmington and had a ground path of about 35 miles. The trajectory was pretty flat."
New movie: Sandia National Lab has posted a Quicktime movie from 11:12pm Monday showing a bright meteor traveling along the southwestern horizon (631Kb, temporary link).
Sierra fireball: Jim Gamble tells A/CC that there is a new Sandia meteor network station near Nevada City in northern California. It belongs to Wayne Watson, who has posted his first result, a fireball at 4:12am lasting more than six seconds on May 5th, verified by Sandia. He asks that anyone who witnessed this event to please contact him.
Some all-sky cameras are "direct view" with a fisheye lens looking skyward, so frames with north up have east left. Other cameras use a normal lens to look down on a hemispherical mirror (see Sandia and Cloudbait rigs), so west is left.
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