(meteorobs) IMO fireball report form goes live

Megan Argo megan.argo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 10:11:39 EST 2015


Dear all,

After huge efforts on the part of Mike Hankey and Vincent Perlerin, the IMO
website now hosts a multi-lingual fireball report form at
http://fireballs.imo.net/   Assuming no specialist astronomical knowledge
or observing experience, this form easily guides the user through the
process of reporting a fireball sighting in detail.  The information
gathered from the submitted reports is collected into a public database
which can be searched for particular events:
http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/browse_events

A team of volunteers has been hard at work translating the fireball form
into more than 25 languages, and the IMO now requests your help in
publicising it to local astronomical societies and groups in your region.
We all know that large fireball events often excite local media.  If such
an event happens in your region, you can help by publicising the form
widely to ensure reports are collected from as many eye-witnesses as
possible.

If you would like to contribute a new translation in a language not already
covered, or spot a mistake in the text of the form in your native language,
please follow the instructions to translators at
http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo/translators

The IMO fireball report can be customized and branded for amateur
societies, observatories, institutions or other astronomy organizations who
receive fireball reports and enquiries from the public (see the Turkish
Uzaybimer version at http://fireballs.imo.net/?org=uzaybimer for example).
For more details, and to set up an account for your organization, please
contact vperlerin at gmail.com

If you would like to test the form without submitting a false event to the
database, please use the test version: http://dev.imo.amsmeteors.org/

Clear skies,
Megan Argo
IMO Press Officer
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