Note: That is the Moon glowing at screen bottom. The tiny streak of light in the highlighted box is the meteor.

Meteor 1  :   May 24, 2008    0944 UT

Observer's Comments:  Cloud much of the night. Two visual captures.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
 v20080524_094450ut_Ashcraft.mov     940 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
 FB20080524_0944ut_Ashcraft.mp4    6 MB  46 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 09:44-09:45 UT minutes.
 


Note: That is the Moon glowing at screen bottom. The tiny streak of light to its left is the meteor.

Meteor 2  :   May 24, 2008    0951 UT

Observer's Comments:  

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
 v20080524_095128ut_Ashcraft.mov     940 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Interesting long delay in onset of radio reflection.
NOTE : For reseasrchers. LARGE FILE. Full duration of scatter reflection.
  FB20080524_0951ut_Ashcraft.mp4   12.7 MB  1 minute 37 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 09:51-0953UT minutes.


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