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Skywarden,
Ursa Astronomical Association
Kopernikuksentie 1
00130 Helsinki
taivaanvahti(at)ursa.fi

Ursa Astronomical Association

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A fireball at night, as bright as a crescent moon

17.3.2023 at 21.30 - Kajaani (III)
Kari Nissinen

My Wyze camera is pointed at the Swedish rocket launch site Esrange in the hope of barium clouds. The camera now detected the fireball shown in the attached video.

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Active aurora band

26.2.2023 at 23.28 - Kajaani (III)
Kari Nissinen

Video of the northern lights captured by the Wyze camera. To the naked eye, the lights were not as bright as in the attached video, but they were bright.

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Active aurora band

15.2.2023 at 22.56 - 23.49 - Kajaani (III)
Kari Nissinen

Attached is a timelapse of the aurora borealis in Kajaani in the direction of the south on February 15, 2023.

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A fireball at night, as bright as a full moon

29.1.2023 at 07.02 - Kajaani (III)
Kari Nissinen

This fireball was unusually bright because it caused a "crown" on the camera lens to flash (a similar crown is also visible on the Moon - the lens is apparently dirty). A fireball was visible above the star Izar. It appears to come from below the star Delta Bootis, pass towards Rho Boot, and extinguish just before Rho Boot. In the video, the flight direction of the fireball appears to be more vertical than it actually was, because the camera has a wide-angle lens. It was south in the direction of approx. 195 degrees and at an altitude of approx. 57 degrees. The brightest star visible in the vi...

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A fireball at night, brighter than the venus

21.1.2023 at 00.42 - Kajaani (III)
Kari Nissinen

According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, it has been completely cloudy, so the fireball could have been very bright. On the other hand, the camera is quite sensitive to light (you can see stars in a cloudless sky), so the fireball may appear brighter than it would have appeared to the naked eye. I couldn't set the flight direction on the iPad using the Safari browser. Update: I replaced the original video, because in the video of the camera you could hear the sound of a bang approx. 7 seconds after the flash. In the new video, I edited the volume of the sound so that the bang is ...

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Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 24.3.2023 klo 9.11.