This came to me from a meteor group. Very interesting A/V so I thought I'd post it here. Also sending it on to Kurt in hopes it might remind him to sign back on to U-A. :) patrick Begin forwarded message:
From: Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft@heliotown.com> Subject: (meteorobs) "Whizzer" - magnified and dissected Date: 02 January 2012 10:15:11 MST To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
As an exercise I magnified the New Years's Eve fireball over New Mexico and made versions playing both radio audio channels of forward scatter radio reception in stereo followed by mono versions.
Although the visual image is somewhat crude it does show the plasma trail and general shape of the plasma envelope. There is also definition in the radio reflection.
It would be nice to have a research-grade optical quality glass dome that the camera images through instead of the dense acrylic dome which is somewhat distorting.
This fireball was a "whizzer."
4 MB movie .mp4 http://www.heliotown.com/FBS20120101_0315utMag_Ashcraft.mp4
Thomas in New Mexico