Global Meteor Network observations of Starlink re-entry 2022-02-10

DOI10.5281/zenodo.6123485Zenodo6123485MaRDI QIDQ6722391FDOQ6722391

Dataset published at Zenodo repository.

Jose Carballada, José Luis Martín, Tammo Jan Dijkema, Fernando Jordán Sánchez, Enrique Arce

Publication date: 19 February 2022

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Description

This dataset contains video observations by some stations of the Global Meteor Network of the re-entry of the satellite StarLink-1668 above Spain on 2022-02-10 around 19:50 UTC. There are several types of files: FF files: these are 10.24 second videos compressed in the four-frame format. They are just FITS files with four frames, containing per pixel 1) the maximum value over 256 frames 2) the frame nr (between 0 and 255) where the maximum occurred 3) the mean value of all 256 frames and 4) the RMS of the 256 values. FR files: compressed video recordings of detected fireballs. These can be read with the RMS software. MP4 files: rendered movies of combined FF and FR files for selected stations. Platepar-files: these contain astrometry corresponding to the FITS files. These can be interpreted by the RMS software. ECSV files: these contain manually picked points (with SkyFit2.py from RMS) along the track of the reentry. For each point, time and apparent coordinates are recorded. These files can be interpreted by the WesternMeteorPyLib trajectory solver. trajectory-points.txt: solutions from the trajectory solver. reentry-map-v2.png: a rendered map of the trajectory (made in QGIS). The files can be processed with the software in https://github.com/CroatianMeteorNetwork/RMS and https://github.com/wmpg/WesternMeteorPyLib.

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