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8 February 2016 at 8:23 pm
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Jeremy Shears
Participant
Hello Eric,
I have not looked at those all sky images, but they sound intriguing.
I am sure they would show meteors and perhaps the occasional fireball. The really interesting part of imaging meteors/fireballs is to obtain an orbit for the object and, ultimately, to identify the parent body. However, to do this one needs data from (at least) 2 sites a few 10s of km apart, to allow triangulation. Also needed is good time resolution during the passage of the object to obtain the velocity of the object.
Kind regards,
Jeremy