Fireball 1    :   May 28, 2008    0647 UT

Observer's Comments:  Clear night. Four visual fireball captures. Excellent conditions.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080528_064737ut_Ashcraft.mov       780 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Nice short duration reflection;  interesting stereo effect in headphones from this meteor.
  FB20080528_0647ut_Ashcraft.mp4   880 KB  7 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 06:47 UT minute.



 

Fireball 2    :   May 28, 2008    0748 UT

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
v20080528_074804ut_Ashcraft.mov       793 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Small fireball with a delayed ascending long duration radio reflection.
FB20080528_0748ut_Ashcraft.mp4  7.3  MB  1 minute 2 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 07:48 UT minute.
 

The next two fireballs were not captured by the Sentinel camera but the secondary video/radio system caught them.

Fireball 3 :   May 28, 2008    0704 UT
Video with forward scatter audio:
Meteor shoots from screen center to screen bottom right.
  FB20080528_0704ut_Ashcraft.mp4    3.1 MB  28 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 07:04 UT minute.




Fireball 4 :  May 28, 2008   1044 UT


Video with forward scatter audio:
This meteor is hard to see, at left of screen streaking upwards.
  FB20080528_1044ut_Ashcraft.mp4  3.6 MB  29 seconds

Below:  Radio spectrograph of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor in video above occurs during the 10:44 UT minute.



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