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Fireball records

August 15, 2009

Bolide far and not very high above horizon, which explains a low magnitude of observation. Many observers from North-East of France and Belgium on the forums webastro.net and futura sciences.

A lot of very precise report du to amateur astronomers organized the night of shooting stars on August 15. Open night to the public and hundreds, thousands of people have seen the phenomenon

Data
  • Date: 15/08/2009
  • Time WET: 21:58:57
  • Time UT: 19:58:57
  • Azimuth (°): 28.5 - 5.5
  • Altitude (°): 12 - 4.5
  • Magnitude: -2.3
  • Duration: 8,4 seconds

A second all-sky camera recorded the shooting star! Marco's camera from Chaligny, very nice video seen on his website http://marcodechaligny.free.fr..

This recording is placed ideally to do a triangulation. Indeed it's near the fireball and the meteor falls almost vertically.

Here the trajectory calculated from these two records (from southeast to northwest):

Meteore M20090815_195857 trajectoire

June 15, 2009

Through the clouds between two rainfall

Data
  • Date: 15/06/2009
  • Time WET: 01:57:26
  • Time UT: 23:57:26
  • Azimuth (°): 206 - 242
  • Altitude (°): 36 - 31.5
  • Magnitude: -6.2
  • Duration: 2.4 seconds

April 8, 2009

Data
  • Date: 08/04/2009
  • Time WET: 21:40:03
  • Time UT: 19:40:03
  • Azimuth (°): 16 - 32
  • Altitude (°): 45 - 17
  • Duration: 5.2 seconds

April 5, 2009

Beautiful fireball but I am not very happy with my record it seems that there is a bad focusing ...

Data
  • Date: 05/04/2009
  • Time WET: 04:47:10
  • Time UT: 02:47:10
  • Azimuth (°): 161 - 104
  • Altitude (°): 38 - 25
  • Duration: 3.5 seconds

July 24, 2008

So there is some noise, but yesterday evening I was testing the detection with more contrast and the sunrise also decrease the quality...

I am very happy! :D

Data
  • Date: 24/07/2008
  • Time WET: 05:14:39
  • Time UT: 03:14:39
  • Azimuth (°): 247 - 7
  • Altitude (°): 44 - 23
  • Duration: 7 seconds
  • Video frames: 203

The video size is heavy, 8 Mo, It's here also

If you have seen this fireball, let your witness onREFORME (REseau Français d'ObseRvation de MEtéores) web site, like this we can calculate the trajectory!

Even it was si hearly morning some persons have seen the fireball.Somebody from Orleans give a precise observation

Trajectory estimate
M20080724_031439 trajectoire

June 26, 2008

Data
  • Date: 26/06/2008
  • Time: 03:06:11 WET
  • Azimuth: 130 - 143
  • Altitude: 49 - 47
  • Duration: 0.6 seconds
  • Video frames: 28
Data
  • Date: 26/06/2008
  • Time: 03:43:51 WET
  • Azimuth: 167 - 165
  • Altitude: 40 - 33
  • Duration: 0.5 seconds
  • Video frames: 26

June 23, 2008

Data
  • Date: 23/06/2008
  • Time: 03:34:27 WET
  • Azimuth: 100 - 277
  • Altitude: 86 - 76
  • Duration: 0.5 seconds
  • Video frames: 26

May 22, 2008

Yes! I caught my first meteor!

Data
  • Date: 2008/05/22
  • Time: 03:03:59 WET
  • Azimuth: 179 - 354
  • Altitude: 51 - 69
  • Duration: 3.0 seconds
  • Video frames: 81