Meteor is small streak in highlighted boxes. Moon is the bright blob at screen right.

Meteor 1  :   April 20, 2008   1028 UT

Observer's Comments:  Cloudy till 4 am this night.  Meteor activity picking up.

Movies :


Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080420_1028ut_Ashcraft.mov   822 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
Slight delay in onset of radio reflection.
FB20080420_1028ut_Ashcraft.mp4   4.3 MB   27 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor occurs during 1028 UT minute. Note meteor appears in top half of chart. Later in the 1028 UT minute there was another
meteor ( in bottom half of chart ) that was out of visual range. All other dots and blips on graph are small space dust particles.

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Meteor 2  :   April 20, 2008   1114 UT

Observer's Comments:  Meteor is small elongated blob at screen bottom.  Moon is bright blob to the right.

Movies :


Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080420_1114ut_Ashcraft.mov  927 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
Head echo and first 20 seconds of radio reflection only.
 FB20080420_1114utHE_Ashcraft.mp4   2.8 MB   20 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor occurs during 1114-1115 UT minutes.   All other dots and blips on graph are small space dust particles.






Meteor 3  :   April 20, 2008   1135 UT



Observer's Comments :  In image above, meteor is elogated streak at screen left bottom.

Movie :


Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080420_1135ut_Ashcraft.mov  815 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
Strong radio reflection.
 FB20080420_1135ut_Ashcraft.mp4   3.1 MB   31 seconds