Meteor 1   :   May 8, 2008    1017 UT

Observer's Comments:   Partly cloudy most of the night but five visual meteors captured.
 No spectacular fireballs.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :   Sandia Labs Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080508_101713ut_Ashcraft.mov      782 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
FB20080508_1017ut_Ashcraft.mp4  2.2MB   19 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1017 UT minute. Fireball during the 1018 UT minute was out of visual range.  All dots are space dust particles.





Meteor 2   :   May 8, 2008    1032 UT

Observer's Comments : Good sonic capture.

Movies :
 
Movie 1:  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
 v20080508_103214ut_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.
   FB20080508_1032ut_Ashcraft.mp4   4.7 MB  40 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1032 UT minute.


 





Meteor 3   :   May 8, 2008    1047 UT

Movies :
 
Movie 1:  Sentinel all-sky camera capture, without sound:
v20080508_1047ut_Ashcraft.mov  781 KB  6 seconds

 

Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
Another strong sonic radio reflection.
  FB20080508_1047ut_Ashcraft.mp4   2.1 MB  18 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1047 UT minute. There is another meteor right after at the 1048 UT minute line.






Meteor 4   :   May 8, 2008    1108 UT

Movies :  
Movie 1 :   Sandia Labs Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080508_110754ut_Ashcraft.mov      782 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
FB20080508_1107ut_Ashcraft.mp4   2.7 MB   18 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1108 UT minute. All dots are space dust particles.





Meteor 5   :   May 8, 2008    1117 UT

Observer's Comments : Dawn meteor, 5:17 am MDT. Meteor is the short streak bottom of screen image above.
Mild but long sonic reflection in movie 2 below.

Movies :
 
Movie 1:  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080508_1117ut_Ashcraft.mov  770 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 : Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with dual channel sound:
Long dual channel radio reflection.
FB20080508_1117ut_Ashcraft.mp4     4.9 MB  46 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs at the end of the 1117 UT minute.
A few more coincidental meteors also appear on chart.


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