RE: [APML] Geminids 04: Something Really Different...

["Lane, Jason R" <jason.lane@navy.mil>]

The Geminids were pretty nice.  I saw a lot of bright ones at the rate of about 1-2 per minute between 8 and 9 pm pac.  Interesting analysis.  If you wanted to take it further, you could rotate the images so that the meteor streaks were all vertical and redo the plots.  Then you could compare them to each other with respect to brightness and visual path length, burn variability, etc.  You ought to be able to find a program that plots pixel values along a line in the picture...that would help reduce noise in the data.

Cheers,
Jason

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From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
[mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Chris Schur
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 9:50 AM
To: APML
Subject: [APML] Geminids 04: Something Really Different...


Hi All,

I captured a whopping 4 meteors in 48 shots with the robotic camera during
the peak Geminids, and rather than just post the images, which are probably
rather ordinary, I did a bit of analysis on them.  You can see my results
here:

http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/filmimagepages/geminids04.html

You can still look at my full frames as well.

Comments?


Clear Skies,

Chris Schur
Astro: http://www.PSIAZ.com/Schur/astro
Robotics: http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/roboticsmain.html

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