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Under construction. The Data Team will learn how to look at the data charts from RSP printed by the Software Team or work with the Software Team to look at enhanced views of the data to see how many "hits" have been observed and translate the findings and the timing of the hits to an email to send to Sky Scan Central for logging on your school's page on the Sky Scan website. It is better to observe overnight when human activity is at a low ebb. Also, the number of meteors observable increases at around 6 a.m. when the leading edge of the earth travels into the stream of sporadic or shower meteors. These meteors tend to enter the atmosphere at a greater speed because of the Earth's velocity through space of 28.8 km per sec. This higher energy translates into higher levels of ionization. As a result of these two factors, many radio meteor observers conduct their observations between midnight and 7 a.m. |
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