Nordic Meteor Network

Captured by NMN cameras

Fyn Meteor Fall, 2023

Although the meteorite was not recovered, several of the Danish RMS cameras successfully triangulated a fireball at 1.06 am on the 12th of June that may have dropped a very small meteorite near on Fyn. The fireball was visible for only a few seconds, but left a lasting impression.

Perseid Meteor Shower

The Perseid meteor shower, which is debris from the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, is spectacular above the Northern Hemisphere. The meteor flux can reach over 150 meteors per hour, as the small fragments burn up high in the atmosphere. The examples below show the 2025 event, which peaked on August 13th. There is one video, as well as several stacked night images that summarise the captures of that night. You can even almost see the point source of the shower in the upper right of the first camera, which faces north.

The image below is a radiant map, which shows the position in the night sky of the source of the meteors captured by one camera. Here, this one imaged 155 Perseid meteors on the night of the 13th of August. Information on this type of radiant map can be found here.

The Falcon 9 Fuel tank

The cameras captured the re-entry of the SpaceX Falcon 9 fuel cannister, which ejected fuel high in the atmosphere, directly over Jylland on March 9th, 2025. The fuel froze, and as the cannister spun it resulted in a spiral.

Weather

Whilst not as obvious as meteors, the cameras also record the weather. Here, we can see the base of the cloud cover above Jylland. One meteor was also detected on this night!

The image above shows several sprites in the center-left above the clouds. These bright flashes of light form when there is an electrical upward discharge above a lightning storm, and would be red if the image was in colour. The image is a stacked image of the entire duration of the night, and so it is also possible to see some faint meteors and planes or satellite trails that occurred at other times.