A few pings from the meteor rig

[Ibbo!]

put the aerial up yesterday much to her disgust and spent a while tuning it in and got a good few hits about 1 every 2 mins after midnight

 

[FenlandPaul]

Some nice captures there, Steve.  What's your typical background rate with your setup?  I wonder if that's the first signs of Perseid activity.

[Ant]

Very nice Steve. Don't fully understand what I'm seeing to be honest. But if I am reading it right you caught a couple of decent size meteors?

Pete Lawrence over on facebook posted up yesterday a image of what he believes to be an early Perseid! So its certainly possible that they could be Perseids. 

Cheers

Ant

[SteveNickolls]

You have some good screenshots there Steve. Are you going to keep your gear running 24/7 until the Perseid shower is over? The IMO has the entire shower period as between 17th July to 24th August with peak activity on the 12th August. Your equipment will detect many more meteorids than any visual observer and is unaffected by cloud. Just a pity we can't link visual meteors with those using Graves.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers,
Steve

[Ibbo!]

Thanks

I cannot remember what the background ate used to be as its about 3 or 4 years since I last tried it, but I did think around the 12 /hour seems to ring a bell.

Once I have the counter running right I will be running it 24/7.

 

 

[ChrisLX200]

Oh how I miss the big analog TV transmitters!  Want to see what the background rate looked like during a shower back in 2004? This was monitoring two frequencies (effectively looking in two directions)

ChrisH

 

[Al.Grant]

My detector has been back up and running for a few weeks now and seems to have settled down.

My webpage now has a 60sec and 10min detection trace running and auto updating. The 10 min trace has only been up for about an hour or so, but seems to be working.  It means I need 2 copies of SpecLab running, but the laptop seems to be coping OK.

 http://ukstargazer.net/radio-meteor-detector/meteor-waterfall/      (The 'waterfall' pages should auto update.)  

 

Good job my detector is working as we had 100% cloud cover last night so couldn't see a thing.

 

[jarraman]

nice, al grant,i was averaging about 130 an hour.was still getting about 60 an hour this morning,9-10am.

any idea how to interpret what you see on the screen,i have one from last night ,was there when it came on the screen,was getting a whistle about every second,duration was about 700.to me it seemed as though the metorites where following each other in a long stream,if that makes any sense,lol.

[The Admiral]

I'm getting some good strong and lengthy signals with the Perseids. For me it's back down into the high 30's per hour, but this morning I got a very broad peak of up to 110/h between 03.00 and 09.00 (GMT). I can't say how these compare to previously because I'm using a different antenna which seems to give me a better signal.

Interpretation? Now you're asking! This is a good source, and the article on "Speculation on Meteor Echoes 2012" will tax the brain. But it appears not to be simple. The International Meteor Organisation is also another source.

It will be interesting to see what it peaks at in the next 24hrs.

" it seemed as though the metorites where following each other in a long stream" That's very possible, a meteor train I believe.

Cheers, Ian

[Ibbo!]

got some big pings last night and this morning which i put on faceache

 

 

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[Al.Grant]

My webpage 'waterfall' now has 2 waterfall images, I've added a 10 min trace alongside the 60 sec one.   http://ukstargazer.net/radio-meteor-detector/meteor-waterfall/

 Outside expected meteor showers I'll probably just show the 10 min one as it cuts down on the amount of images that need uploading (every 10 mins rather than every min).

As for interpreting what we see, I'm not sure but yesterday I got an email from Zooniverse on a new project on the BRAMS tranmitter  https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/radio-meteor-zoo

These is some info on their website that may help  https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/radio-meteor-zoo/about/research  But it's more directed towards identifying what is or is not a meteor rather than info on the meteor itself.

 

 

[SteveNickolls]

Thanks Al for the update on your web page-it's looking good, and also for the link to the zooniverse site-will take a look at what's happening there.

Best Regards,
Steve