Important note: The meteor is the small streak in the highlighted box at top of screen. That is the Moon at the bottom left.

Fireball 1    :   May 27, 2008    1011 UT

Observer's Comments:  Clear night. Four visual fireball captures. Excellent conditions.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080527_101117ut_Ashcraft.mov       940 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Good specimen.
 FB20080527_1011ut_Ashcraft.mp4    2.6 MB  22 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 10:11 UT minute.




Important note: The meteor is the faint streak in the highlighted box at top of screen. That is the Moon at the bottom left.

Fireball 2    :   May 27, 2008    1020 UT

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080527_102047ut_Ashcraft.mov       799 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Interesting deep toned reflection.
FB20080527_1020ut_Ashcraft.mp4     3  MB  25 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 10:20 UT minute.
 

The next two fireballs were not captured by the Sentinel camera but the secondary video/radio system caught them.

Fireball 3 :   May 27, 2008    0529 UT
Video with forward scatter audio:
FB20080527_0529ut_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 05:29 UT minute.





Fireball 4 :  May 27, 2008   1007 UT

Video with forward scatter audio:
FB20080527_1007ut_Ashcraft.mp4    3.8 MB  32 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor in video above occurs during the 10:07 UT minute.



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