(meteorobs) Possibility of Electrostatic meteor detection.

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

Hello Wes.
My appology for tardy reply. You certainly are right about electrostatic 
devices being a little too sensitive....

The instrument which was made at home is pictured at:
http://geocities.com/stange34@sbcglobal.net/MVC

The original design is described at:
 http://amasci.com/electrom/sas51p1.html#Electro

I am going to attempt to send you a personal e-mail with a .JPG screen shot 
image of a 1/2 hour run with the data logger pulses which was recorded after 
0130 hrs PDT last night. It is typical of what is attracting my attention.

Over 70% of the pulses noted over 1.5 hours coincided shortly after my "real 
or imaginary" suspicion of seeing a meteor flash of light on the separate 
all-sky monitor.

Wish I could send it to the group for their info... but I am having trouble 
with my "free with DSL" website. Last night was the first clear night in 2 
weeks here.

As mentioned I am suspicious of EVERYTHING that comes too easily.

Larry
YC Sentinel



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Swift, Wesley R. (MSFC-NNM05AB50C)[RAYTHEON]" <Wesley.Swift at nasa.gov>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2007/04/13 12:40
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


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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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