(meteorobs) Determining meteor speeds with all-sky cam?

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Jun 3 12:57:32 EDT 2011


Generally not for sporadic meteors. For shower members, however, you can 
extract quite a lot of additional information from single station data 
because of the assumptions that you can make about some of the meteor 
parameters.

Chris

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

On 6/3/2011 10:38 AM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
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> Question:  Can you determine the speed of a meteor using a single all
> sky camera?  If not a precise speed, can you roughly estimate the speed?
>
> Thomas Ashcraft in New Mexico


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