Nick,
did you also manage this one from early this morning a mag -5.4 a similar ground track to the other I put up a few days ago.
I'm pleased I took this aspect of astronomy up, one never knows what has been caught overnight and it adds a bit of excitement to breakfast. The data is useful as well.
I'm also surprised how much can be caught on what may be a poor night when other types of observations are not taken up. A few minutes of clear, even a misty break in the clouds. Most days it seems I capture something.
Regards,
Eric
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After a week of no electricity in the area of the Observatory which shut us down, we are back rockin' and rollin'
. Looks like the same capture.
Indeed it does Janice, the flight path puts it over the QE II Bridge.
Eric
Beautiful capture!
Detected on my radio setup as well - see attached.
Michael.
Well done Michael, I have my radio detector disconnected for the past few weeks. I have it working but really now need to fix it outside the house away from interference . I need some more guidance on how to use it and in interpreting what I see.
Eric
Here is what was captured in Hayfield, Derbyshire using a radio station tuned to GRAVES with Spectrum Lab
and here is the Doppler shift and power profile from Meteor Logger
There is no head echo but it otherwise looks like a classical overdense power profile.
Mike German
Hayfield in High Peak
Is there any confirmation of the flight path please? As a radio meteor observer using the GRAVES radar it is not often that I find a video capture with trajectory that correspond to a radio event. This is important because the coverage of the radar is largely unknown. If this were over Kent it would be the futherest North I have had!
I caught it from Chelmsford and would be happy to run the other stations' data through UFO orbit to get a groundtrack when their data is available.
Nick,
I'd be happy to forward the data to you. Which of the files from UFO analyser do you need.
Eric
Eric
Just let me have the M_ CSV file from UFO Analyzer. All my meteor data is here and an example file which includes this event is here.
Nick and Americo
It would be most useful if you do that - thanks!
Evening Nick,
I'll send you the .csv file for that night directly to you
Thanks, Eric
Eric has provided me with his data. The geometry is not very favourable since our stations are too close together but here is the ground track. It was out over the English Channel off the north coast of France.
BTW Nick is the direction SE or NW?
It was going left to right in my south facing camera so the ground track is east to west.
Hallo Nick and Eric
Not as far N as originally though but all usueful information - thanks
Thanks to Nick for making use of my data with his to provide a better ground track position. It was good to see the actual end result.
Thanks for direction Nick. This is definitely useful information in helping me extend what I know of the coverage of GRAVES radar. The scatter is from lobes from the rear of the antennas. The end of the trail crosses the Great Circle line between my monitor receiver and the transmitter close to Dijon and is just about midway between. The power profile I recorded suggests it is specular scatter which, because of where, implies it is at a fairly shallow entry angle.
Thanks again Nick and Eric - keep them coming!
A week ago i wrote the following on the Facebook visitors page..
Ernie, the details of that object are on the image. can't locate original thread. Nick also caught this one. I'm pleased that this thread has made you re-join the BAA. I have recently had my 50 yrs of continuous membership acknowledged.
It may be better to locate the original post and carry out any discussions of this object there to avoid confusion.
Eric
A week ago i wrote the following on the Facebook visitors page..
arthritic fingers
Late to the party but did catch the event from London
Regards
John B
I have written a note this on event for my own records. It compares the video data with radio data. The results are useful but no firm conclusions can be drawn, so I won't copy it here. However, if you are interested in the note and give me your email I will send it (I have shared it with a couple of observers already.)
Regards
Mike G