Note:
Fireball is the streak highlighted in boxes. Moon is the bright blob.
Fireball : April 16, 2008 0720 UT
Observer's Comments: One of the quietest nights
of the year for visual and radio fireballs. Only one visual capture.
Movies :
Movie 1, Sandia National
Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080416_0720ut_Ashcraft.mov
822 KB 6 seconds
Movie 2, Ashcraft's video
and forward scatter system with sound:
Weak but evident sonic radio reflection.
FB20080516_0720ut_Ashcraft.mp4
840 KB 8 seconds
Below: Radio spectrogram of the time of the
meteor. 61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz
below white line.
Fireball occurs during 07:20 UT minute. Small radio reflection, obscured
under chart label on spectrogram. All other dots and blips on graph
are small space dust particles.