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RE: (meteorobs) Query: CCD imaging the Leonids?



     Perseid test files are now available on  www.tde.com/~millerfe if anyone wants to check their browser's capabilities.  
Please do not repost my Web address, if my ISP gets saturated like the ones did for the eclipse last year, real-time updates will be impossible.  I will post a notice on meteorobs if there is anything worth looking at.  If someone else
wants to mirror the site on some super computer elsewhere that's fine with me.   If I can get the Windows 3.1 keystroke macro Recorder to work with the Snappy Windows 95 software, I will be uploading automatically every other minute, the previous minute.  The VCR should have all the data with WWV on the audio.
     My plan is to collect one minute video AVI files at the best time resolution and immediately upload any files having something worth looking at(midnight to dawn local  the 17th).  I have been thinking of the practice dry run last year- the 0.5 sec. test rate is too slow to get a good track on a Leonid.  They are just too fast.
     My system is an experimental,  work in progress, home made version of the Sandia all sky meteor camera.  I am developing it for remote observer support for the Denver area telescopes.  The 0.06 lux video CCD is looking at a 36in.  convex mirror.  The 8mm, 0.8f wide angle lens has no iris so it will not work during daylight.  Testing last week shows the camera is presently too close to the mirror to get the full sky.  Oh well, measure once, cut twice.  No time to fix that before the 17th.
 
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From:  Lew Gramer
Sent:  Wednesday, November 04, 1998 11:23 AM
To:  Meteor Observing Mailing List
Subject:  (meteorobs) Query: CCD imaging the Leonids?


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