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Meteor echo of the day
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHere are two meteor echoes seen by NW Hampshire along with the full bandwidth horizontal lines which are lightning strikes from a local Thunderstorm unseen by the other receivers. Note that the lightning interference is stronger on the?
vertically polarised system.
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýAlthough fairly quiet an average of two or more echoes per minute
have been seen most mornings lately. In today's screenshot the NW
Hampshire H Pol receiver sees two echoes only one of which is seen
by the co-located V Pol receiver. The very feint echo observed by
the Norman Lockyer receiver is most likely the same one seen on
both the NW Hampshire receivers while Armagh saw neither. The
upper echo seen by the Norman Lockyer receiver appears to have
been unseen by any of the other receivers. So once again the
observations show that the echoes are directional and linearly
polarised despite the incident illumination being Right Hand
Circular Polarised. Improvements we are working on will enable
accurate correlation of echoes received at the different locations
but this will be achieved by post processing as it isn't practical
to do so on the live displays. There is guidance on using the
system at and more notes are
available at ? Brian |