(meteorobs) 2012 Report of Aquariid peak Meteor Activity from NAVSPASUR Space RADAR

[Jay Salsburg]

Observation Date/Time, July 30, 2012, 12:50 AM.
http://www.salsburg.com/NAVSPASUR/2012Aquariid.html

 

http://www.salsburg.com/NAVSPASUR/capt1207300050.jpg At the time this Screen
was captured on my NAVSPASUR Receiver, the Earth was moving parallel to the
ground, plunging through space toward the Eastern Horizon. This motion
causes some of the Meteors entering the Atmosphere above the Space RADAR to
leave a Doppler trace indicating receding direction, away from the receiver.
This is characterized by the significant Doppler Energy below the Carrier
Frequency centered near 1050 Hz in the image. Ignore the wavy horizontal
line it is local Electronic Interference.

 

All the vertical spiky traces are Meteors. Notice on the left of the image
the four strong Metronomic Meteor spikes, and the simultaneous line with a
slanted trajectory. Notice then the next single Meteor spike has a similar
signature, with a faint trail coming from the first four. The next Meteor
spike lasted several seconds registering the classic ringing sound of a
long-lasting visible Contrail. Another of these long-duration Contrails is
on the far right side of the image, also lasting several seconds. The long
Meteor spike in the center of the image is displaying the signature of
moving away from the receiver, or East to West, which is the opposite
direction of Earth travel through space at the time of the recording. 

 

The strong narrow V-shaped trace on the near-center right is the ISS moving
between the NAVSPASUR Transmitter and my receiver.

 

http://www.salsburg.com/NAVSPASUR/

	
 

	
	
	

Jay Salsburg

 	

318 671-0009

 	

salsburg.com <http://www.salsburg.com/> 

 	
			

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/attachments/20120730/341cf5d2/attachment.html