(meteorobs) Possibility of Electrostatic meteor detection.

[Dale]

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dale
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Swift, Wesley R. (MSFC-NNM05AB50C)[RAYTHEON] 
  To: Global Meteor Observing Forum 
  Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:40 PM
  Subject: RE: (meteorobs) Possibility of Electrostatic meteor detection. 


  Some description of or reference to your "moving charge Detector"  would
  be useful.  How is it made?

  Wes


  -----Original Message-----
  From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
  [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of
  stange34 at sbcglobal.net
  Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:37 PM
  To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
  Subject: (meteorobs) Possibility of Electrostatic meteor detection. 

  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
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