Sunday 17 September 2023

Meteor activity for July / August 2023

Below is a carpet plot produced in Microsoft Excel that shows the hourly meteor counts recorded during July / August 2023 from the Raspberry Pi 3-based receiver at Brough Astronomy's Observatory (BLAS).  These were post-processed on my development system at home.  This shows the "overdense" meteor reflections received from the GRAVES radar in France and probably correspond with those that were probably visible with the naked eye, albeit over the Mediterranean! 


During July and August there is a procession of meteor showers, as predicted by the tables published in "The Radio Sky" Lashley.

I'm looking at setting up a second receiver and computer to decode amateur radio meteor scatter activity using MSK-144 for the next meteor shower and have installed WSJT-X on my desktop Raspberry Pi that I'm using to develop my radio telescope.