(meteorobs) Meteors, natural and otherwise

[Chris Peterson]

> I will try a much higher sensitivity setting to help
> offset the reduction in magnitude.

What does that mean? Is this some kind of threshold setting used by the 
Sentinel system? The PC164C is always operating at maximum sensitivity, 
i.e. maximum S/N, so there's no way to change its true sensitivity. I'd 
expect any meteor detection software to already be operating at a 
detection threshold just above the noise floor of the camera.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteors, natural and otherwise


> OK Chris, thankyou.
>
> That settles it.... I am going to try day & night with the IR dome 
> starting
> right now.(15 minutes). I will try a much higher sensitivity setting 
> to help
> offset the reduction in magnitude.
>
> Just "maybe" it can do both worlds with a common sensitivity setting 
> without
> too much false triggering...... It will be an interesting trial
>
> Larry