An amateur network recording meteor images and spectra across both hemispheres. Sensitive Full HD cameras span Czechia and Slovakia; since 2025 the Southern Spectroscopic Observatory adds stations at La Silla and El Sauce in Chile.
In the early morning of May 9, 2025, the CEMeNt network recorded two meteors from the Eta Aquarid stream separated by 2 seconds. Orbit analysis and Monte Carlo (1.6% random; D_D=0.008; D_SH=0.018) confirm a fragmentation pair – likely fragments of a single meteoroid that broke up before entering the atmosphere.
Despite relatively high meteoric activity, the first quarter of 2025 was poor in bright meteors. However, the night of April 12/13, 2025 broke this pattern dramatically. Two bright fireballs were recorded in the late night hours, separated by less than two hours.
On November 21, 2024, at 01:25:05 UT, a bright bolide illuminated the skies over central Moravia, captured by five wide-field cameras of the Central European Meteor Network (CEMeNt). Designated as fireball 20241121_012505, its atmospheric path extended from Vidče to the southern edge of Olomouc, covering 80.7 km in 1.2 seconds at an entry angle of 37.1° and a pre-atmospheric speed of 72.19 km/s. Identified as part of the Leonid meteor shower, the meteoroid's high-speed retrograde orbit and cometary origin trace back to 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. With an absolute magnitude of -5.7m, the event offered a spectacular glimpse into celestial dynamics.
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