Oct 10 '05 - 6:09am super bright Fireball

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:29 pm

Hi folks:

Oct 10 2005 ... a bright fireball entered my pc-based meteor detection system around 6:09am... The first image is a peak-hold image showing all the bright pixels of the passing fireball. The 2nd image is a single frame - deinterraced image depicting the classical thin plasma tail and the circular ball like nucleus. The frame catured nearly half of the brightest portion. ( just imaging a symmetrical other half outside the FOV).. Watch the video there

http://www.ykchia.com/more_meteors.htm

rgds
ykchia
www.ykchia.com

JY · Post by JY » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:01 pm

Waohhh !
Brilliant !

Cheers

JY

river · Post by **river** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:56 pm

Woo... impressive!!

Is that a satellite moving from left to right on the upper left of the video frame?

Regards,
river

qu1xs1lv3r · Post by **qu1xs1lv3r** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:42 pm

how come i dont see anything on the video?

Post by **Airconvent** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:20 am

qu1xs1lv3r wrote:how come i dont see anything on the video?

simply click on the underlined text "pretty video' or right click it and click "save link target as" and then choose a folder to save the file. you can play it using media player.

rich

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:25 am

Hi :

Thanks...

Yes, the short streak is created by a passing satellite when the meteor triggered the avi recording.

I just did the ID of the satellite and the matching plot is given on the updated page.

HIt refresh to see the update..

The satellite was ID to be Okean 2. The whole duration of the meteor is about 0.60 second

rgds
ykchia

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:26 am

Hi Ric:

Thanks for helping out...

rgds
ykchia

Post by **Airconvent** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:30 am

ykchia wrote:Hi Ric:

Thanks for helping out...

rgds
ykchia

no problem....oh meteor master ! keep the good stuff coming..!
btw, do you keep your camera on every night as long as the sky is clear?

cheers
rich

ykchia · Post by **ykchia** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:35 am

Hi Ric:

Whenever there are stars visible ....or the satellite pattern indicate a favourable no clouds to the west of the summatra... Fire- ball can appear out of no where and thin clouds is ok, they are bright enough to shine through...

.. and since i am a light sleeper... i have to wake up before any rain come to ruin the whole setup... ha ha

i have not yet got time to test out whether this is a random or shower fireball...

rgds
ykchia

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:46 am

Impressive video, yK. Well done!
I didn't see any Giacobinid metoers on Oct 8, in spite of the possible meteor storm as it was cloudy here :-(

Go well,
Jeremy