Fireball 1    :   June 7, 2008    0943 UT

Observer's Comments: Clear night. Two interesting fireball specimens this night.
The first specimen as seen above was a fast long trailed meteor.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
    v20080607_0943ut_Ashcraft.mov   798 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Good scatter reflection. Interesting on the spectrogram below as well.
   FB20080607_0943ut_Ashcraft.mp4    2.5 MB  22 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 09:43 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.




Fireball 2     :   June 7, 2008    1013 UT

Observer's Comments:  This fireball had a slight delay in reflection then made a long intensifying forward scatter reflection.
Good sound as can be heard in the second movie below.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080607_1013ut_Ashcraft.mov       756 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
     FB20080607_1013ut_Ashcraft.mp4  7 MB  1 minute 3 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 10:13-14 UT minutes. All other dots are space dust particles.


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