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.