Nothing to count in June

There is no astronomical darkness here from late May to late July, so the meteor log goes quiet. The sky at midnight is a pale blue band along the northern horizon, and only the brightest stars show.

I used the time to rebuild the camera setup: a cheap equatorial tracker, a 14 mm lens, and a dew heater strip that runs off a power bank. The interval timer now writes the exposure time into each file name, which will make matching photos to visual counts far less painful.

A fireball report

A reader sent me a description of a slow fireball seen low in the south on the 11th, with a smoke train. I passed it on to the regional fireball network, which collects visual reports to work out a trajectory. If you see one, note the time to the minute, the start and end points against the stars, and the direction.