(meteorobs) IR Signature of Meteors in the near IR

[prospector at znet.com]

I hope you intend to share the particulars with meteorobs both for our
benefit and those in the future who may research this subject.

                                     Dave English
                                 Oceanside, California

Quoting Larry <ycsentinel at att.net>:

> Hi Ed.
> Using a Sentinel camera system (in its conventional form) for daylight
> work
> will not be effective. I found (2 years ago) a solution to the daylight
> IR
> trigger/contrast problem which unfortunately requires another Sentinel
> hardware system in a DEDICATED configuration distinct from our normal
> all-sky night monitoring equipment. That information has been passed on
> to
> interested parties and I will e-mail you particulars as soon as I get
> through munching last nights fireball data and sent images to Dirk in
> Tokyo
> & Eric's hunting group.
>
> YCSentinel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Majden" <epmajden at shaw.ca>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: 2009/05/26 10:45
> Subject: (meteorobs) IR Signature of Meteors in the near IR
>
>
> > For the IR signature of meteors do a search with "Google" for "IR
> > meteor spectra".  There are several references for this.  An early
> > paper by Peter M. Millman and Ian Halliday can be found at:  http://
> > adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1959AJ.....64Q.342M  This was based on using
> > extended red end films at night but it gives you the lines present in
> > the near-ir region.  I am not convinced that filtering will really
> > aid in capturing daylight fireballs.  I'm pretty sure this would have
> > been done by meteor scientists if this was practical to do during
> > daylight.
> > Ed Majden AMS Meteor Spectroscopy
> > Courtenay, B.C.
> > Canada
> >
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