Fireball 1 : May 6, 2008 0451 UT
Observer's Comments: Three smaller fireball size meteors captured last night.
Movies :
Movie 1 : Sandia Labs Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080506_045106ut_Ashcraft.mov 782 KB 6 seconds
Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
Only extremely faint sound generated from this meteor.
FB20080506_0451ut_Ashcraft.mp4 816 KB 6 seconds
Below: Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor. 61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor occurs during 0451 UT minute. Indistinguishable from all other space dust blips on chart. All dots are space dust particles.
Fireball 2 : May 6, 2008 1043 UT
Observer's Comments:
Movies :
Movie 1: Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080506_104318ut_Ashcraft.mov 770 KB 6 seconds
Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
Strong. Long dual channel radio reflection.
FB20080506_1043ut_Ashcraft.mp4 6.2 MB 48 seconds
NOTE : Radio charts glitched after 0900 ut.....No charts for the next two meteors.
Meteor 3 : May 6, 2008 1115 UT
Observer's Comments:
Movies :
Movie 1: Sentinel all-sky camera capture, without sound:
v20080506_111541UT_Ashcraft.mov 770 KB 6 seconds
Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
Full duration of the radio reflection.
NOTE : LARGE FILE!
FB20080506_1115ut_Ashcraft.mp4 13 MB 1 minute 10 seconds
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