Meteor 1  :   April 24, 2008   1042 UT

Observer's Comments:  Clear night. Post Lyrid shower peak.  I start with biggest fireball of the night in terms of visual magnitude.

Movies :

Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080424_104158_Ashcraft.mov   805 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
FB20080424_1042ut_Ashcraft.mp4   6.8 MB   55 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 1042 UT minute.   All other dots and blips on graph are small space dust particles.
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Meteor 2  :   April 24, 2008   0831 UT

Observer's Comments:  Meteor is small blob at upper right of moon.

Movies :

Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080424_083115_Ashcraft.mov  851 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
FB20080424_0831ut_Ashcraft.mp4     1.9 MB   15 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 0831 UT minute. Not much of a radio signature in this case.  All other dots and blips on graph are small space dust particles.





Meteor 3  :   April 24, 2008   0930 UT

Movie :

Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080424_093037_Ashcraft.mov  815 KB  6 seconds

Movie 2, Ashcraft's video and forward scatter system with sound:
 FB20080424_0930ut_Ashcraft.mp4   2.1 MB   19 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 0930 UT minute.  All other dots and blips on graph are small space dust particles




Meteor 4  :   April 24, 2008   1109 UT

Observer's Comments :  Inconclusive radio reflection so second movie is not added for this small meteor.

Movie :

Movie 1, Sandia National Laboratories Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080424_110946_Ashcraft.mov  808 KB  6 seconds