News_2013-10-05

Nice double-peaked meteor seen by CILBO

2013 Oct 05: This interesting double-peaked meteor was recorded by our cameras ICC7 on Tenerife (left) and ICC9 on La Palma (right). Only a handful of meteors per month show more than one peak, and this one is the most extreme example since the start of the operation of the system in 2011. Try to visualize the geometry - the meteor flew more towards La Palma, that is why it seems to be shorter in the ICC9 image. Because the apparent speed of the meteor is then slower, it spends more time on one pixel of the camera - and seems to be brighter.

Double-peaked meteor seen from ICC7 Double-peaked meteor seen from ICC9.
Double-station meteor with peak magnitude of about 1 mag, recorded 05 Oct 2013, 05:13:58 UTC, from ICC7 onTenerife (left) and ICC9 on La Palma (right).

 

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