1. Visualisation Tools 2018 Update
Peter Campbell-Burns

3. KML Generator Updates Single Meteor Plot: New: Project to ground
Station identifiers
Triangulation plot
Stream Plot
New:
Simplified operation
Developed using Embacadero Delphi (OO Pascal)

4. KMLGenerator – Single Meteor

6. Placemark properties
Placemark properties used to present meteor data

7. CAMS version

8. KMLGenerator – Stream Simplified operation
Does not require “J” catalogue file
Pre-processes file to determine contents
Individual showers can be selected for display
Optional timestamping (animation and filtering)
Optional colour coding by velocity

9. KMLGenerator – Stream

11. Orbits

12. Frankly, UFO Orbit is rubbish
Difficult to use on websites
Not really suitable for print

14. Python to the Rescue Interactive 3D plots (matplotlib)
PYKEP Library for orbital calculation
Superb graphical capability
Popular tool of Data Scientists
IT’s free

15. Orbital Calculations Pykep library:
Space flight mechanics computations mostly based on perturbed Keplerian dynamics.
If it’s good enough for ESA its good enough for us
Joe Hahn (Space Science Institute) routines:

16. Producing a plot Tkinter control panel
Input directly from UFO Orbit csv file
Output to graphics window
Several display options
Easily customisable:
Filtering specific orbits
Custom colour schemes
Custom line widths

17. Orbital elements from UFO Orbit file
Perihelion distance (q)
Eccentricity (e)
Argument of Perihelion (ω)
Longitude ascending node (q)
Inclination (i)

18. Looks good at any scale

19. Different perspectives

20. Inclination markers

21. As seen on meteornews.net
In collaboration with Paul Roggermans