Observer's comments:   Three visual captures this night. There would probably have been more but rain
and a long lasting monsoon lightning storm happened most of the night.

Fireball 1  :   July 16, 2008    0909 UT  ( 3:09 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  The meteor is the streak to the left of the Moon.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080716_090929ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0909 UT minute and goes into the 0910 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles. 

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Fireball 2  :   July 16, 2008    0959 UT  ( 3:59 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080716_095957ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occursat the end of the 0959 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 3  :   July 16, 2008    1035 UT  ( 4:35 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
 v20080716_103509ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  813 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1035 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

 
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