Brazilian video monitoring meteors network EXOSS: Status and first results—a citizen science project
Abstract
EXOSS—EXplOring the Southern Sky for new meteor radiants—is a citizen science project network aimed primarily to register meteors and fireballs or bolides using CCTVS low-cost cameras and meteor analysis suite software for video capturing and astrometry, evaluating (i) trajectories, (ii) velocities, (iii) radiants, (iv) orbits, and (v) light curves. The network is a social non-profit organization, constituted by amateurs scientists collaborating with professional astronomers. Currently, the network is composed of 66 stations, with 44 collaborators and 8 partners
- Publication:
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International Meteor Conference, Petnica, Serbia
- Pub Date:
- January 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018pimo.conf..162D