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French Video Meteor Network A.Leroy JC.Ferrez M.Herrault T.Gulon J.Brunet JP.Godard C.Demeautis S.Jouin K.Antier IMC 2011 Sibiu Outline A brief history Presentation of the network Tool of the


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French Video Meteor Network

IMC 2011 – Sibiu

A.Leroy – JC.Ferrez – M.Herrault – T.Gulon – J.Brunet – JP.Godard – C.Demeautis – S.Jouin – K.Antier

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Outline

 A brief history …  Presentation of the network  Tool of the network  Some results  Conclusions

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A brief History…

 REFORME network (Pro am Collaboration)

Contact : Karl Antier

Need to develop a specific database for the network

 In 2009 august , the birth of the BOAM

dataBase of Amateurs Observers of Meteors

 Mid 2011New website and mailing list for

REFORME

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The Network

Nearly 70 % of the French territory is covered with 9 cameras

The Map

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The Network

Type of Camera Strategy

WATEC 902H2 67% OTHER 11% KPC 350 / PC 164 22%

KPC 350 / PC 164 WATEC 902H2 OTHER

Model of Cameras

Network Camera Type

Tight FOV 67 % All Sky 33%

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Uranoscope Station

 One camera but two

softwares to detect meteors

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Tools used in the network

 SonotaCo software suite  Developement of two specifics softwares

PostUfo & GraphBoam

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Tools used in the network

How to send data to the database

 Post Ufo

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Tools used in the network

The database on the website http://www.boam.fr/post.php?lang=en

xml ufoanalyzer file meteor image compressed video

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Tools used in the network

How to visualize the data

 Graph Boam

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BOAM Meteors Detections 2010 Results

58% 42%

Sporadics Meteors Showers

Nearly approx. 6400 meteors

Some Results

At this time nearly 12 000 meteors in the database

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Some Results

BOAM Meteors Showers Detections 2010 Results

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BOAM Meteors multi station detections 2010 Results

2% 2% 9% 26% 61%

Sporadics Perseids Lyrids Leonids September Perseids

Some Results

Nearly 200 meteors multi station detections

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Some Results

Focus on perseids double detections Computations with Ufoorbit , with Q2 quality parameter The Inclinaison (i) 111 to 116 Ascendant longitude node Ω 139,9 to 141 Perihelion argument ω 148,9 to 156,6

Close to Swift Tuttle comet orbit parameters 109P/Swift-Tuttle (i) 113.4 (Ω)139.44 (ω)153.0

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Conclusions

 Network growing with camera uniformity  Contribute to IMO video meteors survey  Support on specific observation campaign

  • Educationnal project with the public
  • Collaboration with the Paris Observatory meteor team
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Thank for your attention ….

Any Questions ????

Some Links http://www.boam.fr/post.php?lang=en http://reforme-meteor.net/indexen.htm http://www.imcce.fr/langues/en/ephemerides/phenomenes/meteor/observation.php

Acknowledgments

  • IMCCE Paris Observatory : J.Vaubaillon ,

S.Bouley, L.Maquet & F.Colas

  • Uranoscope members (local astronomy club)