(meteorobs) Possibility of Electrostatic meteor detection.

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

A growing suspicion exists that common fast meteors are causing momentary pulses or interuptions in the late night local electrostatic field.

Not confirmed yet by other instrumentation,  there is a very high incidence of recorded pulses coming from the Moving Charge Detector in the early morning hours at this location.

By midnight the atmospheric layers and electrostatic fields have "risen" and are very stable. Pulses are widely spaced and random. During the day, lower atmospheric layers are formed by the sun and atmospheric charge activity appears to be far to active to isolate any pulse to meteors.

I am noticing the late night pulses correspond to what I "THINK" I see on a 12 inch composite monitor which is separate & isollated from the electrophonic computer system or its instrumentation. It is a secondary monitor for just viewing the sky.

This composite monitor covers the whole sky and any  meteors are extremely fast, faint, and nearly unobservable. But when I "think" I see what could have been a meteor or a flash of light.... then look at the data logger on the computer, it is forming a pulse.

There is a delay between the data logger and the flash of momentary light or faint streak(?), which is because the data logger samples the data 100 times per second before it presents the 4 channel sequenced data as a pulse from any one channel.

It looks promising enough for me to build a second Moving Charge Detector and monitor it on a real-time fast response Oscilloscope with periphery view as I stare at the 12" composite monitor. 

I think it could REALLY be beneficial if an independant person could make a Moving Charge Detector and connect to a portable(?) Oscilloscope or computer data logger and actually view late night meteors outdoors while noting any pulses on their instrumentation. 

I am suspicios of these results at this point and it needs an independant study. Thankyou.

Larry
YC Sentinel