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Hello plus pictures of my new Astrovid Fireball Camera!
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登録日: 2010.02.13
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記事日時: Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:13 pm    記事の件名: Hello plus pictures of my new Astrovid Fireball Camera! 引用付きで返信

Hello Everyone,

I am very new to meteor detection and basically got interested after stumbling upon this forum during some research for an essay on asteroids. The easiest way for me to enter this hobby was to purchase an off the shelf system of which there aren't many choices out there. In fact, the only 'plug and play' self contained device I could find was the Astrovid Fireball Camera which I subsequently purchased.

I have added a few detailed pictures to this post as it looks as though the internal components are different to the ones on the Astrovid web site, and I know people are curious to see what's inside this commercial offering.

So far I can comment that the build quality is good and Astrovid has paid attention to cable placement etc. The documentation is good too and available online.

I can't comment on the performance yet (other than it all worked out of the box) as I have only run it for one night - so I have questions pertaining to setting up the camera and software, but I'll post these on separate threads.

Oh, for the record, on my first night I only captured lots of birds, clouds and a fruit bat. The fruit bat seemed to swoop at one of the birds in one video which was entertaining, but alas no satellites or meteors yet Smile

PS: Feel free to comment, I am aware that it isn't a perfect setup, and costs more than buying the parts individually and building it myself - but it will get me started pretty quickly and easily Smile

- Daniel



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記事日時: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:57 pm    記事の件名: Re: Hello plus pictures of my new Astrovid Fireball Camera! 引用付きで返信

Hi Daniel
Welcome to this forum. and welcome to meteor world.

Thank you for introducing the Astrovid's housing.
I've heard of that, but I did not know it well.
It seems it is well constructed.

Meteor Hunter wrote:
on my first night I only captured lots of birds, clouds and a fruit bat.

I am quite sure that you will soon get meteors. Please show us if you got it.

From your E-mail address, I guess you are in Australia, is it right?
If so, it is a wonderful matter for us also.
We eager for the observation from southern hemisphere.
Because southern part of radiant map (video observation result) is still whole empty.
I sincerely hope that you find the simultaneous observer and achieve multistation observation someday.

SonotaCo
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記事日時: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:38 pm    記事の件名: Re: Hello plus pictures of my new Astrovid Fireball Camera! 引用付きで返信

Hi SonataCo,

Thank you for your warm welcome.

SonotaCo wrote:
From your E-mail address, I guess you are in Australia, is it right?


My camera (and email address) are in Melbourne, Australia. However, I actually work and live in Singapore. Therefore I will be controlling and maintaining my camera and PC system remotely, which adds to the fun Smile

- Daniel
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記事日時: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:19 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi Daniel:


Nice system you got there.

I am from Singapore operating adhoc meteor detection from Woodlands. The astrovid built looks nice and i wish they can allow me to install one on HDB rooftop! ( i stayed at the 12th floor). You can appreciate how cloudy our sky in S'pore is!


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記事日時: Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:30 am    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi ykchia,

Wow! What a small world. According to your GPS coordinates you live exactly 1.05km from me in Woodlands lol. I have YaKun at Causeway Point almost daily at lunch time, I am sure that we have walked past each other over the last five years that I have lived there Smile

I have been reading your blog for some time. I was surprised at how many events you have captured, even some sprites. Knowing how cloudy and light polluted Singapore is it’s great to see some astronomy can still be carried out in there. I had to pretty much give up visual astronomy when I moved there, not only because of the weather, but it would also be very difficult to drag a lot of equipment down a lift and down the road...and back again.

- Daniel
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記事日時: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:58 am    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi Daniel:

Oh... you are in Woodlands too!

My email address is chiayk1@singnet.com.sg. You are welcome to drop me a line.

Been cloudy lately and nothing interesting.

A lone meteor caught

http://nightevents.blogspot.com/2010/02/solitary-meteor.html


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記事日時: Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:12 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Cool,

I have run my automated meteor detection system for 10 days now. I am picking up about 2 to 3 meteors per night, depending on weather of course.

I posted my first two meteors on my blog at http://meteorhunter.blogspot.com/. Eventually I'll add a summary page of detected events. I also want to try UFO Analyser which should be fun, once I get all the base systems running.

I haven't worked out how to stop it running in bad weather - the other night it sent me 133 emails for indirect lightning detections - 6GB worth lol. There will be plenty of rainy nights in Melbourne, so no point detecting in the rain.

- Daniel

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記事日時: Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:01 am    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

For several weeks, I try to contact Astrovid to buy it but without results!
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記事日時: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:13 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi Stephane,

Yes they were pretty hopeless with me too over email...in the end I called them directly on the telephone.

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記事日時: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:32 am    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

It's more difficult for me to call directly to astrovid (time, not perfect english, ...).And it seems that they not sell it in other website!

Sad

Stephane
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記事日時: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:42 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi Stephane,

Not sure if this will help, but I spoke to them on 2 different email addresses:

CharlieB@astrovid.com
astrovid@albany.twcbc.com

The person I spoke to was called John.

It shouldn't be that hard to get in contact with them...not sure what the problem is...

Are you looking to buy the FireBall camera? My camera just survived a freak hailstorm in Melbourne that destroyed the patio roof next to the camera! So the camera is pretty good, even if the service isn't Smile

See the golf ball sized hail pictures on my blog http://meteorhunter.blogspot.com/ - the weather has been so bad that I haven't had any meteor detections in 3 nights Sad

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記事日時: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:46 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Thanks,

It's a watec 902h2 ultimate CCIR version?
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記事日時: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:31 pm    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Hi Stephane,

I haven't got the spec sheet with me - the spec sheet is in Melbourne. However the Watec in my system runs at 720x576 PAL. A screen shot of UFO with my camera running is at http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4bizrvbtcsk/S335EkoK9GI/AAAAAAAAABs/-yoNfg9LRkM/s1600-h/Dark2.jpg to confirm the pixel size for you.

Looking at the specs online, the CCIR version is 720x576 PAL, not sure what other differences there are if any?

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記事日時: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:46 am    記事の件名: 引用付きで返信

Thanks.

How many time do you wait your camera?
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記事日時: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:15 am    記事の件名: Order Time 引用付きで返信

I ordered the camera on 1st December 2009 and it arrived on 27 January 2010.

The camera was shipped direct to Melbourne.

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