Meteors Members: Ahn Soo Young Jee Myeong Keun Jee Myeong Keun Diego Širola Diego Širola Slaven Mišak Slaven Mišak Team leader: Nikola Strah Scientific advisors: Goran Zgrablić Izidor Pelajić Nikola Biliškov Izidor Pelajić Nikola Biliškov
Goals Meteor observation RadioVideoVisualELF
Meteors: -small particles of dust -up to 50m in diameter -circle the Sun – meteor streams Background
Radio observation Goal: -detect a signal from a station far far away (more than 800 km) (forward scattering) (forward scattering) -record the signal through the night -analyze the recorded data Meteor Group Lab TV station Prague Ionization trail
Equipment - Yagi antenna - iCom IC-PCR1000 receiver - Computer and Humanware
Details iCom IC-PCR1000 receiver Frequency MHz TV station in Prague, output power 150 kW, distance 544 km, video and audio signal recorded PC computer Pentium 3 Data recording, reduction and analysis performed with CoolEdit & Audacity software, sampling rate Hz Yagi antenna in the dark Digging the hole for the antenna
Results 13h of raw data to be processed 10 minutes of actual meteor recordings
Visual observation Plan: -gather few hours of observations -send report to IMO -calculate ZHR
Results - Few hours of observation - Reports sent to IMO - ZHR calculated for all observations - Observed showers: - Perseides - Southern δ Aquarides - κ Cygnides ZHR:-κ Cygnides- 1.day 3 2.day 40 2.day 40 3.day 41 3.day 41
ELF Goals: Record a meteor signal in ELF band ( Hz)Record a meteor signal in ELF band ( Hz)
Equipment ELF orb 50 Hz filter DC filter and appropriate software NI DAQmx SCB-68 and appropriate software
Schematics Electrometer 50 Hz cutoff 150 Hz cutoff Low pass DC Filter NI DAQmx SCB-68 PC with acquisition software made in LabView 7.1
Results equipment testing Signal from the electrometer Signal from the electrometer when electrometer was grounded
Without the grounding With the grounding - We used Slaven for grounding purposes
Signal recorded
FFT calculated using LabView programmed software and CoolEdit Frequency Analysis
Video Goal: Simultaniousley record the sky with video camera combined with radio & visual observation for analisys.Simultaniousley record the sky with video camera combined with radio & visual observation for analisys.
Equipment Watec WAT-902H CCD camera DC power supply- founded and thoroughly tested Video capture card MetRec and Meteoder software
Results - Video capture card (Meteor II) doesn’t work - Camera works - DC power supply is operating “First light” from camera- tested on video monitor from the control room of the observatory
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