(meteorobs) Simple meteor capture system.

[Chris Peterson]

A simple motion capture system can't provide any automated data. All it 
can do is capture the events themselves, and you'll need to analyze them 
manually.

To determine shower membership, you need to use the image to measure the 
beginning and ending altitudes and azimuths, convert those to equatorial 
coordinates, and then test (for linearity) against the positions of 
possible showers.

You can use the data you collect to build up a statistical database of 
activity. To determine the atmospheric path, velocity, or orbit of a 
body requires that the meteor be captured on at least two cameras.

Chris

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Siddhartha Jain" <siddhartha at siddharthajain.net>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Simple meteor capture system.


> That is a nice concise introduction, YC :-)
>
> What I meant was can the log data be used to understand anything else
> about the meteor than just its time of streaking in? How do people
> figure out what kind of meteors were observed - all the various
> *-nids? Only visual observation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Siddhartha