Geminids 2002, 2009, and 2010: a brief report on an experiment with visual and photographic observations and images of all-sky cameras
Abstract
In 2009 and 2010, an experiment to search for radiants of meteor showers on images of online all-sky cameras was attempted. In 2009, only two cameras of the Tzec Maun project were used: one near Pingelly in Australia and one in New Mexico in the United States. In 2010, two more cameras, one all-sky camera at the SAO in Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia, and the one in Kiruna, Finland, brought the total to four. For comparison purposes, photographic meteor images made by Stanislav Korotkiy at the SAO during the Geminids' maximum in 2010, as well as visual observations carried out by a group of observers from the town of Maryina Horka in Belarus in 2002, were used. The goal of this attempt was to find out whether meteor images of all-sky cameras are suitable in practice for the determination of the radiants of meteor showers. This was a new astronomical project called All-Sky Beobachter, "Beobachter" being the German word for "observer".
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference, 30th IMC, Sibiu, Romania, 2011
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012pimo.conf..102B