Radio Meteor Obs - first visual to radio association
A couple of nights ago I was standing outside with binoculars during the early morning hours and saw a sporadic 0.5 to 1.0 mag meteor. I walked inside to see the meteor trace scrolling off my radio meteor observing station. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=3192 This was the first time I was able to associate a visual meteor with a radio trace. Hopefully, more will follow with April's Lyrids shows. The slope of the trace corresponds to the visual observation: the meteor decelerated to the southeast but traveling north. The spectrograph shows an approach slope - the doppler shift increases with time. The duration of the trace (the vertical dashed lines are at 1 minute intervals) appears longer than the quarter to half second of the visual observation. - Kurt
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