(meteorobs) there is now definite CAM activity in the radar

[pbrown]

The plot in question maps all the radiants CMOR detected onto the sky during
the previous day. The update period is determined by the need to collect
data for a full day to minimize biases in any one particular part of the
sky. With CMOR's broad gain pattern this means we need a full day for the
radiants to fully sweep through the beam and be (roughly) equally
detectable. In principle, this means the updates occur just as a complete
degree of solar longitude is finished. In practice, there is some data
communication and additional processing time required even when all data is
"available" - this can produce another hour or two delay after the end of an
integer solar longitude bin before the maps are updated.

The bright radiant concentration which appeared a few hours ago when today's
update was complete shows moderately strong activity from the
Camelopardalids but does not identify them automatically as the shower is
not in the internal list used by CMOR to perform stream associations.

--Peter Brown

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Javor Kac
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2014 12:26 PM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) there is now definite CAM activity in the radar

Hi Esko,

> http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/
> At the predicted naximum time practically nothing was seen around 
> there !
I do not know how this plot is created, but I followed it yesterday and 
earlier today and it seemed that the same data was plotted, only shifted 
to reflect current position of the objects in the sky.
I therefore think the fresh data has only now been added. The 
appearance of the radiant will probably stay the same for one day now, 
according to my experience from yesterday.

Note also the activity from the first observations submitted to IMO is 
available at:
http://www.imo.net/live/cameleopardalids2014/

Clear skies!
Javor
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