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(meteorobs) [IMO-News] Live update DMS Leonids 2000 Expedition
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From: "delphinus" <delpsurf@cistrondot nl>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 00:32:11 +0100
Subject: [IMO-News] Live update DMS Leonids 2000 Expedition
Hi list members:
The Delphinus Team (DMS) will try to get you Live updates from our Leonids =
2000 expedition We will go Near live at 16 nov at
http://wwwdot delpsurf.cistrondot nl/
you can see the expedition impression page at
http://home.wanadoodot nl/delphinus/impres.html
and some first Digital stil-video pictures from the the image intensifiers
camera systems at
http://home.wanadoodot nl/delphinus/dvleo2.html
The Photo Gallery 2000 will have a lift off at
http://delpsurf.www.cistrondot nl/leonids2000.htm
Clear Sky to you all
Robert Haas
The Delphinus Team
The photo-equipment of Robert Haas and Casper ter Kuile consists of twenty=20
Canon T-70 + 1.8/50 mm optics at each station. More technical information=20
regarding the camera setups can be found at=20
"http://delpsurf.www.cistrondot nl/haas_array.html" and=20
"http://home.wanadoodot nl/dms/photo/crtk_array.html". We will be=20
photographing from 0 to 6 UT and use exposure times of 10 minutes at=20
maximum. In case skyconditions are worse we will start photographing at 2=20
UT and shorten the exposuretime to 7 minutes. Kodak Tri-X is used and=20
developed to about 800 ASA. The 1.8 lenses will be stopped down to 2.8. The=
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array's of Canon T-70's are fully automated through the use of the Canon=20
Command Back 70. A powergenerator will provide energy for the rotating=20
shutter and the heating of the lenses and camera's.
The video-equipment of Carl Johannink and Casper ter Kuile consists of a=20
Canon 1.2/50 mm aspherical objective followed by the AEG XX1400 Image=20
Intensifier and a Panasonic digital camcorder NV-DA1. Romke Schievink at=20
the second station has a similar video image intensifier setup. To be able=
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to point these two systems at the correct aimingpoint 100 km high in the=20
sky the Q-richt program of Marc de Lignie is used at the laptop.
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