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The Southern Ontario All-sky Meteor Camera Network |
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| Authors: | R. J. Weryk P. G. Brown A. Domokos W. N. Edwards Z. Krzeminski S. H. Nudds D. L. Welch |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 3K7;(2) Department of Earth Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7;(3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M1 |
| Abstract: | We have developed an automated network of all-sky CCD video systems to detect medium–large meteoroids ablating over Southern Ontario, Canada. The system currently consists of five stations with the largest baseline being 180 km. Each site runs a video rate recorder with sufficient resolution to determine meteoroid trajectories with a typical precision of about 300 m but no worse than 1 km. The sensitivity of the camera is close to a stellar visual magnitude of +1 which allows for astrometric calibrations using field stars. Photometric procedures have also been developed and tested. The system has a limiting magnitude for meteors of about −2 with the current detection algorithm. |
| Keywords: | Meteors All-sky Detection Real-time |
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