(meteorobs) ELP Bolide 05/04/06

Jan Verfl verfl.meteors at seznam.cz
Fri May 19 06:38:39 EDT 2006


Great movie!

Let me ask - why there is a bright rectangular box around the bolide? I
cannot think of any camera-related effect casuing this, but I do not have
much experience with this.

Thanks, 
Jan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org 
> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Jim Gamble
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:13 AM
> To: A/CC - Bill Allen; Michael Bakich; CHASERS BOLIDE; Peter 
> Brown; Joseph C. Chavez; Thomas & Dianna Dorman; Fireball 
> Sighting (NAMN); Ernie Iverson; Robert Liefeld; Ed Majden; 
> Mike & Mary Marcotte; Meteorobs Mailing List; Sirko Molau; 
> Tony Nelson; North American Meteor Network; 
> rondosonic at netscape.net; Richard Spalding; Cory & Carole 
> Stone; Dr. Tony Phillips; Wayne Watson; Steve Witt; Carlos Zerino
> Subject: (meteorobs) ELP Bolide 05/04/06
> 
> Hello All,
>     Very sorry for the delay on this event. Software problems 
> are resolved and I can now offer the first 6 seconds 
> (Sentinel limit) of the May 4 El Paso bolide event which 
> occured at 21:44:58.54 MDT. Keep in mind that even though 
> UTEP seismology says they did not record an anomoly at event 
> time, there are numerous reports of sonic booms and even 
> smoke trail reports. Filtering may be the culprit.The event 
> was seen visually as far away as Tucson,AZ. While in-flight 
> peak visual magnitude recorded by the ELP camera was a -13.2, 
> we are estimating that one of three flashes at the event's 
> end (which Sentinel did not record) may have produced a 
> visual mag of somewhere between -16 and -20.
>     Also keep in mind that bandwidth on my website is 
> EXTREMELY low so if you attempt to access the URL and get a 
> "bandwidth exceeded, try back in an hour" message, you'll 
> know it's not you. If anyone would like to offer some space 
> for me on a site which can handle the traffic, I'd be happy 
> to work with you and thank you in advance.
>   Please click on
>   http://www.geocities.com/desert_lights/latestelpasoevent.html 
>    
>   If anyone is interested in an Excel graph of the event, 
> please e-mail me and I'll send it to you.
>   Regards,
>   Jim Gamble
>   NAMN/ELP
>   Sandia All Sky Camera Network
>     
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