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Title: Reports of a Fireball?
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on February 24, 2009, 07:28:00 PM

Report of a fireball early this morning at around 1000z. Not really sure what the initial report was but here's a clip from what I got. I assume a fireball would be on the ground?

Title: Re: Reports of a Fireball?
Post by: Delta Echo on March 13, 2009, 11:56:26 PM

A fireball is a meteor that is really big and bright. I captured this one outside my house the first night I setup a meteor camera. This was awsome to wake up and find the next morning.


I believe the controller was not familiar with this term.

Don

Title: Re: Reports of a Fireball?
Post by: Biff on March 14, 2009, 12:07:08 AM

Nice catch DE!  Makes me want to set up a meteor camera.

Soooo.....  how do you set up a meteor camera?  :p

Title: Re: Reports of a Fireball?
Post by: Delta Echo on March 14, 2009, 12:19:04 AM

many sites
http://www.jatobservatory.org/Galleries/MeteorCam/MeteorCam.html

this is the software I used:
http://sonotaco.com/e_index.html

and the camera is here:
http://www.supercircuits.com/Security-Cameras/Specialty-Cameras/PC164C

then a video capture card and PC capable of capturing 30 frames a sec

DE