(meteorobs) All sky cameras

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue May 12 13:36:46 EDT 2009


My allsky cameras, utilizing PC164Cs, are sensitive to almost mag 2 stars. 
It's hard to say just what that equates to with meteors, since it depends on 
apparent angular speed (fast meteors need to be somewhat brighter). The 
camera saturates at just about the fireball threshold of mag -4.

Chris

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drobnock" <drobnock at penn.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:10 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) All sky cameras


>A question to those using all sky cameras to observe fireballs, what is
> the visual  limiting magnitude of the camera? And what is the limit of
> the meteor or fireball that can be recorded?
>
> Also for Thomas Ashcraft, for the VLF/VHF/Visual recording you have
> presented, what is the limiting visual magnitude of your system?
>
> Thank you,
>
> George John Drobnock




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