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> From: NTZT04A@prodigy.com ( THOMAS T WOJACK)
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:56:56, -0500
> Subject: (meteorobs) my video system
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> Has anyone ever used photo-resistors/photo-transistors/solar
> cells/etc. to record meteors?
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> Jonathan
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Hans Betlem and Hildo Mostert in The Netherlands used to operate a system
with a high performance, so-called photomultiplier tube (PMT). This is a
vacuum device that works with high voltages. This system could detect
meteors anywhere in the sky, with a limiting magnitude of +4 in the zenit.
Nowadays, simpler versions of this system are routinely run in parallel
with fish-eye cameras to record the occurrence time of fireballs during
automated operation.
From what I have heard phototransistor or photodiodes are too noisy for
meteor detection (mainly because the detector surface is much smaller).
Marc
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