(meteorobs) Meteor software program needed?

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

I do not believe that would work Andrew.

Using Chris's unique stream work as an example..... I would want a meteor 
summed photo for each of 12 groups. Each group represent 5 minutes of 
capture time.. That is 12 photo's per hour to glance at for counting etc. 
without playing back the full hour of filming or captures.

YCSentinel



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Wood" <akbojibud at yahoo.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2007/09/12 01:10
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteor software program needed?


> Couldn't you rig it to a DVR?
>
> stange34 at sbcglobal.net wrote:  Thinking along the lines of Chris 
> Peterson's investigation, it might be very helpful if there were a 
> universal camera "TIMED" imaging program, which could:
>
> 1) Detect the light of meteor/meteors in motion and record it as a short 
> series of frames.
> 2) Allow an option for date & time to be specified for starting the time 
> of capturing.
> 3) Specify individual capture time lengths in minutes. (called a Group in 
> this example.)
> 4) Automatically restart for additional groups. (new capture periods).
> 5) Specifiy the turn off date/time for a night/week/month run.
> 6) Stack all the frames within EACH group for a sum of meteor presence in 
> that group.
> 7) Allow an option for ALL the Groups to be stacked as a total of meteors 
> from start to stop.
>
> Each "Group" of frames would be stacked & imaged as a single .jpg or .bmp 
> picture for example, with light streaks indicating the sum of meteor 
> activity during that group period.
>
> It might also be possible to make an image intensity comparison for 
> brightness estimation besides direction, period of travel, trails, azimuth 
> & elevation..
>
> This has some features inherent in VCR's but without the difficulties of 
> dealing with long period tapes at slow playback speeds.
>
> YCSentinel
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