New Meteor Rig

Jolene McSquint-Fleming our instrumentation engineer has been
working hard in the 'clean room' building a dual camera 'Meteor Rig'

" It will not be long before the Perseid Meteor Shower 2019 will be lighting up the skies over the Jodrell Plank Observatory. Jolene has been hard at work building a new rig to enable more of the night sky to be imaged simultaneously. We are currently awaiting the delivery of a matching 18-55mm Canon EFS lens but we have already been testing the rig using lenses that we have to hand. We have captured images of Capricornid Meteors and inadvertently the bright trail of the International Space Station when it flew over Lowestoft" - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.