[HN Gopher] The European AllSky7 fireball network
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       The European AllSky7 fireball network
        
       Author : marklit
       Score  : 112 points
       Date   : 2026-03-27 07:00 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.allsky7.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.allsky7.net)
        
       | mastermage wrote:
       | Oh thats genuinely realy cool.
       | 
       | I remember back when I lived in Berlin and studied planetary
       | Science there. One of the Professors calculated and predicted
       | where one of those Meteors is gonna go down. So people went there
       | and watched and photographed it. Afterwards there was a little
       | bit of an all hands on deck where a lot of students with
       | different Professors went out and searched for the remains of the
       | meteorite.
        
         | sigmoid10 wrote:
         | Wait a second. They predicted (before it even entered
         | atmosphere) where it was coming down with such a precision that
         | you could not just go out and photograph it, but even go and
         | collect remains? I thought this was barely possible if you have
         | a radar that is actively tracking it through the last stages of
         | the atmosphere, while for anything still in orbit you'd be
         | lucky to guess the correct country.
        
           | gostsamo wrote:
           | The things in earth orbit have a very small angle of entry.
           | I'd expect that if the angle is bigger, the deflection from
           | the atmosphere would be smaller (if it survives the hit).
        
             | sigmoid10 wrote:
             | I still have never seen any prediction like that which was
             | made before the thing actually entered the atmosphere. You
             | can see how some known remains sites were determined by
             | clicking on them in this map:
             | https://www.strewnify.com/map/
        
       | red_admiral wrote:
       | Looking at some of those you can understand why people claim to
       | have seen UFOs.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | Looking at them makes me think of Missile Command and I want to
         | reach for a roller ball controller.
        
       | 1e1a wrote:
       | I wonder if the temporal noise reduction (evident in the video
       | clips) is being applied before integrating the frames to create
       | the thumbnails.
        
       | dandanua wrote:
       | I use an alternative software to capture night skies and
       | fireballs: https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky
       | 
       | You can use it on Raspberry Pi, for example, with any supported
       | camera. The software is very good, it can automatically create
       | star trails and timelapses.
        
       | littlestymaar wrote:
       | This is really cool.
       | 
       | The disclaimer on the website is weird though:
       | 
       | > Note that all images and video presented here are copyright
       | protected and may not be copied or shared for commercial purposes
       | 
       | How can those be copyright protected at all given they have been
       | taken automatically from surveillance camera without creative
       | input from anyone?
       | 
       | To my (non lawyer) understanding, this would fall in the same
       | category as CCTV footages which aren't considered worthy of
       | copyright protection.
       | 
       | Any thoughts?
        
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