(meteorobs) Rarity of daylight fireball recordings.

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

An opportunity might exist to record daylight fireballs, and the larger rare 
earth grazing fireballs, if standard surveilance cameras (non-all sky) are 
used in a manner to avoid much of the sunlight with the smaller field of 
view and CCD chip dimensions which produce rectangular imaging deliberately 
oriented to minimize solar glare which can mask a fireball.

Construction has been started to augment the Sentinel facility here in 
Northern California using handyavi software for recording, and 
inexpensive(under $25) Sony 0.1 Lux Hyper HAD model SPT-M124 B/W cameras 
obtained off of ebay. Most have lenses attached.

Others are encouraged to try daylight capture techniques to share solutions 
to common problems in daylight glare masking & any additional areas of 
concern.

The global search subject of "daylight earth grazing fireballs" on the 
internet is quite interesting.

YCSentinel