Observer's general comments:  Monsoon cloudiness for mucht of the night.  Three visual captures.

Meteor 1  :   July 20, 2008    0701 UT  ( 1:01 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  Meteor in the above pic is the dot in the highlighted box. That is the Moon at screen bottom.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080720_0701ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
   FB20080720_0701ut_Ashcraft.mp4  41 seconds  4.3 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 at the end of the 0701 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 2  :   July 20, 2008    1045 UT  ( 4:45 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  Small meteor is the small streak in the highlighted box. The Moon is screen botom right.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080720_1045ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Nice head echo.
 FB20080720_1045ut_Ashcraft.mp4   51 seconds  5.4 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 1045 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 3  :   July 20, 2008    1051 UT  ( 4:51 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080720_1051ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
 FB20080720_1051ut_Ashcraft.mp4  51 seconds  4.3 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 1051 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.

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