Observer's comments:   Only two small visual fireballs this night over New Mexico.

Meteor 1  :   July 3, 2008    0539 UT

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080703_0539ut_Ashcraft.mov   6 seconds  813 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Fairly faint radio reflection. Audible in headphones.
 FB20080703_0539ut_Ashcraft.mp4   6 seconds  524 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0539 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 2  :   July 1, 2008    0713 UT  ( 1:47 am MDT )


Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080703_0713ut_Ashcraft.mov   6 seconds  813 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Not very strong but an interesting radio reflection.
 FB20080703_0713ut_Ashcraft.mp4   22 seconds  2.2 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0713 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.

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