Observer's general comments:  Lightning the first half of the night, then clearing skies. Two visual captures.
Low radio fireball rates in general the past weeks.

Fireball 1  :   July 23, 2008    0922 UT  ( 3:22 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  Meteor in the above pic is the streak in the highlighted box.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080723_0922ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  794 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Good whizzing head echo in stereo.
 FB20080723_0922ut_Ashcraft.mp4    22 seconds  3.1 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 0922 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 2  :   July 23, 2008    1058 UT  ( 4:58 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  Meteor in the above pic is the streak in the highlighted box.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080723_1058ut_Ashcraft.mov 6 seconds  794 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
 FB20080723_1058ut_Ashcraft.mp4   33 seconds  4.8 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 1058 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

 
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