(meteorobs) 42 second plus long "Earth-skimmer" - a little more info

[Thomas Ashcraft]

On 1/22/12 3:56 PM, Ed Cannon wrote:
>
> By the way, Thomas, what was the magnitude of the fireball?  Also, was
> it varying in brightness along its track?  It seemed like it to me,
> but I don't have the best system for viewing a video like that.
>
> Maybe you got a very unusual meteor.  Did anyone else record or see it?
>
> Ed Cannon -- Austin, Texas

Hi Ed, Jim W, and all,

Thanks for checking.

Magnitude was -5 or so.  It might have had a terminal burst after it 
disappeared from my camera view into eastern sunlight.  Not sure. There 
was a radio burst a few seconds later but that may have been from 
different meteor.

There is one other camera view posted from a Los Alamos Sentinel camera.
http://skysentinel.nmsu.edu/allsky/viewer/174594

Unfortunately, the Los Alamos camera did not catch the beginning nor the 
end of the fireball.  ( Also to Jim Wooddell) I have an old version of 
the Sentinel capture software which caught 12 seconds of the fireball 
but my secondary full-time video system caught it all. My secondary 
system is not a capture type system but is rather just a simple 
continuous video stream onto hard disk and it almost always captures the 
full meteor event.

Thomas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Ashcraft<ashcraft at heliotown.com>
> To: Global Meteor Observing Forum<meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:20 PM
> Subject: (meteorobs) 42 second plus long "Earth-skimmer" - a little more info
>
> I still have not been able to come up with a suitable stacked image of
> the full flight path for my Jan 21, 2012 "Earth-skimmer" capture.  I
> have a partial flight path image that I merged with a sky-map now posted
> here:
>
> http://www.heliotown.com/Jan21_2012_Fireball.html
>
> Thomas Ashcraft  -  New Mexico
>