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2. eds International Meteor Organization pp 38 43 Jenniskens P and Haberman B 2013 Thatcher s Ghost Confirmation of the nu Cygnids NCY IAU 409 WGN Journal of the I M O 41 75 76 Jenniskens P Gural P and Berdeu A 2014 CAMSS A spectroscopic survey of meteoroid elemental abundances The Meteoroids 2013 Proceedings of the Astronomical Conference held at A M University Poznan Poland Aug 26 30 2013 Eds T J Jopek F J M Rietmeijer J Watanabe I P Williams A M University Press 2014 p 117 124 Johannink C 2013 Results for a CAMS double station video observation Meterik Gronau WGN Journal of the l M O 41 14 21 Johannink C 2013 Results of the CAMS project in 2012 WGN Journal of the I M O 41 184 189 Johannink C 2013 Eta Aquariids outburst 2013 observed by CAMS WGN Journal of the I M O 41 199 200 Phillips M Jenniskens P and Grigsby B 2011 Confirmation of the April Rho Cygnids ARC IAUZ348 WGN Journal of the IMO 39 131 136 Rudawska R Jenniskens P 2014 New meteor showers identifed in the CAMS and SonotaCo meteoroid orbit surveys In The Meteoroids 2013 Proceedings of the Astronomical Conference held at A M University Poznan Poland Aug 26 30 2013 Eds T J Jopek F J M Rietmeijer J Watanabe I P Williams A M University Press 2014 p 217 224 oteakley K and Jenniskens P 2013 Discovery of the February
3. Available cameras CAMS 376 Az 34 H 53 CAMS 377 Az 351 H 55 Figure 51 Camerafields Utrecht projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 49 14 11 Wilderen B Operator Jean Marie Biets Position Longitude 50 82047 N Latitude 5 13903 E height 0 050 km Available cameras CAMS 381 Az 10 H 49 CAMS 382 Az 332 H 44 TAD Figure 52 Camerafields Wilderen projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 90 14 12 Mechelen B Operator Paul Roggemans Position Longitude 51 00936 N Latitude 4 48154 E height 0 012 km Available cameras CAMS 383 Az 95 H 44 CAMS 384 Az 58 H 41 CAMS 388 Az 22 H 41 CAMS 389 Az 345 H 40 Operator Luc Gobin Position Longitude 51 01215 N Latitude 4 48226 E height 0 017 km Available cameras CAMS 390 Az 290 H 34 Figure 53 Camerafields Mechelen projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 51 14 13 Zillebeke B Operator Steve Rau Position Longitude 50 81722 N Latitude 2 91267 E height 0 049 km Available cameras CAMS 385 Az 330 H 51 Figure 54 Camerafields Zillebeke projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 02 14 14 Langemark B Operator Franky Dubois Position Longitude 50 91497 N Latitude 2 92569 E hei
4. Enter the R A of the field of view consult star atlas Enter the decl of the field of view consult star atlas Select the same stars in the left rectangle camera field and the right rectangle star map Repeat this for at least 6 stars Confirm the right match by Enter or skip to the next by F After sufficient stars hit C to calculate Purge outliers until O C lt 1 by typing 1 If O C lt 1 then type O Generate the calibration file and close program with Ctrl P FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe to generate a calibration file automatically based on an existing manually obtained or some older Cal file of a previous night Start FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe Enter minimal number of reference stars Enter for O C arcmin 1 Select the directory CapturedFiles that needs a new calibration file CACAMSCapturedFilesyyyyy mm dd hh mm sei Select the directory C CAMS CAL where a valid existing calfile can be found The program will end automatically and generate a new Cal file under CACAMSAMACAL FTP_Reprocess exe to analyse the bin files to detect all suspect moving objects and to copy or move the corresponding bin files with suspected moving objects to the directory C CAMS ArchivedFiles yyyy_mm_dd hh mm sei Start FTP_Reprocess exe Navigate to the right directory C CAMS CapturedFiles yyyy_mm_dd hh mm sei How to start with CAMS 17 e Select CACAMS Cal e Select 2 to move all bin files with suspecte
5. 0 no 1 yes 1 How to start with CAMS 10 FrameGrabConfig txt to be stored under C CAMS Desired frame rate in integer fps 1 use default 25 Desired number of rows 1 use default 480 Desired number of cols 1 use default 640 Connection type see below 1 use default O Video format see below 1 use default 1 Flip red and blue BGR use 1 for std RGB use 0 0 Flip image upside down use 1 else O 1 Connection types VI COMPOSITE O VI S VIDEO 1 VI TUNER 2 VI USB 3 VI 13944 Video Formats VI NTSC MO VI PAL B 1 VI PAL D2 VI PAL G 3 VI PAL H4 VI PAL 15 VI PAL M6 VI PAL N7 VI PAL NC 8 VI SECAM B 9 VI SECAM D 10 VI SECAM G 11 VI SECAM H 12 VI SECAM K 13 VI SECAM K1 14 VI SECAM L 15 VI NTSC M J 16 VI NTSC 433 17 LASTSETTINGS txt to be stored under C CAMS Change the Longitude and Latitude to match your site s coordinates LeapSeconds txt to be stored under C CAMS IMOcalendar txt for the possible shower association during FTP_Confirmation exe to be stored under C CAMS How to start with CAMS 11 9 Preparing your camera We recommend to prepare your camera and setup during daylight hours If all required material were correctly ordered you should have the following items available 1 Watec 902H Ultimate 2 Pentax 12mm f 1 2 3 C CS Mount adapter 4 Ez Cap Framegrabber 5 CCTV video cable 6 BNC cinch adapter 7 Adapter 12V be sure to bu
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7. Latitude 6 78685 E height 0 020 km Available cameras CAMS 321 Az 188 H 41 CAMS 322 Az 302 H 49 CAMS 323 Az 261 H 51 CAMS 324 Az 249 H 40 CAMS 325 Az 11 H 57 Amsterdam mmm A 323 s M Netherlands Dortmund North Rhine Westph y7 4o Eindhoven Ke Cologne BrusseltBrussels Belgium Data Si NAA U S Navy NGA GEBCO Figure 43 Camerafields Hengelo projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 41 14 3 Oostkapelle NI Operator Klaas Jobse Position Longitude 51 57192 N Latitude 3 53767 E height 0 004 km Available cameras CAMS 331 Az 359 H 60 CAMS 332 Az 41 H 49 CAMS 337 Az 92 H 56 CAMS 338 Az 252 H 49 OrWwICh 2 dlstaivgl elli Take ni E f Amsterdam aa Ke p g Utrecht W SoU noe tare Zeeland North Braban Eindho G Antwerp Bruges Flanders Dunkirk Calais BrusseltBrussels Lille eR Figure 44 Camerafields Oostkapelle projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 42 14 4 Ooltgenplaat NI Operator Piet Neels Position Longitude 51 68300 N Latitude 4 35116 E height 0 003 km Available cameras CAMS 341 Az 0 H 60 CAMS 342 Az 308 H 52 CAMS 343 Az 314 H 56 CAMS 344 Az 90 H 58 Flevoland Wtrecht Netherlands Gelder ex Ho e Ew OX E ec P eae m
8. dd hh mm seh In this file you can find for how many stars the best result was obtained and resume the procedure for this number of files Figure 22 If you do not manage to obtain a new cal file with FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe although the sky conditions were very good it means that the available Cal file of previous night is no longer How to start with CAMS 25 valid for the camera position This happens when the camera was pushed exposed to vibrations or slightly moved since the previous Cal file was obtained In that case you must resume the entire procedure with FTP MeteorCal exe If you have chosen to run only FTP Capture exe for the night then you have to run FTP Reprocess exe after you obtained the cal file in order to detect all suspect moving objects with their precise positions This is a very time consuming procedure and therefore we recommend to use rather FTP CaptureAnaDetect exe unless the CPU of your computer is insufficient to manage the job during the capturing itself After FTP Reprocess exe you will have to browse all the bin files with suspect moving objects using a confirmation program in order to select only the data for real meteors 10 Starting routine video observing nights When a valid calibration file exists and your camera is installed at a very stable fixed position you can start running FTP CaptureAnaDetect exe each night This program will record bin files under C CAMS CapturedFiles and in real
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10. orabant imburg EA Rhine VWe Eindhoven Antwerp Dusseldorf ye REMOLIR Figure 47 Camerafields Ermelo projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 45 14 7 Lieshout NI Operator Paul Lindsey Position Longitude 51 51039 N Latitude 5 582298 E height 0 016 km Available cameras CAMS 356 Az 355 H 55 CAMS 357 Az 298 H 44 sai Figure 48 Camerafields Lieshout projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 46 14 8 Alphen a d Rijn NI Operator Robert Haas Position Longitude 52 15336 N Latitude 4 67175 E height 0 002 km Available cameras CAMS 360 Az 306 H 52 CAMS 361 Az 40 H 48 CAMS 362 Az 14 H 56 CAMS 363 Az 101 H 49 CAMS 364 Az 279 H 54 CAMS 365 Az 166 H 61 Figure 49 Camerafields Alphen a d Rijn projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS AT 14 9 Leiden NI Operator Hans Betlem Position Longitude 52 18389 N Latitude 4 50028 E height 0 004 km Available cameras CAMS 371 Az 149 H 33 CAMS 372 Az 112 H 39 CAMS 373 Az 172 H 52 Figure 50 Camerafields Leiden projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 48 14 10 Utrecht NI Operator Felix Bettonvil Position Longitude 52 09395 N Latitude 5 12507 E height 0 005 km
11. right aiming direction This program doesn t register any image Start CameraLive Viewer exe Enter the number corresponding to the USB connection 0 or 1 or 2 or of the camera You get the video image on screen Press two times Ctrl P to end the program FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe to start capturing video frames at a rate of 25 per second in 10 2 second duration bin files of 255 frames each Make sure you have the version of 2013 Start FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe Enter the archive flag enter 1 to capture without detection otherwise 2 to move FF files Enter the camera number for which data will be recorded Enter the position of the Sun below the horizon most put 8 Enter the CAMS directory location Recommended to use always c Enter the number corresponding to the USB connection 0 or 1 or 2 or of the camera The program wil create a new folder yyyy mm dd hh mm ss under C CAMS CapturedFiles The program will end automatically and generate a log file with the number of dropped frames at the end FTP_MeteorCal exe to generate a calibration file in principle the first time or each time the camera has been moved somehow Start FTP_MeteorCal exe Enter your camera number eg 388 Select a bin file for calibration CACAMSWCapturedFilesyyyyy mm dd hh_mm_ss FF388 yyyy mm dd hh mm ss bin Select the directory to store the calibrationfile C CAMS CAL Enter field of view in degrees recommended any value betwee 32 and 40
12. team with a lot of enthusiasm and a strong motivation New participants are very welcome and perhaps we may welcome you in our network Previous experience with meteor work is helpful but not required The feedback and results are the most rewarding among amateurs Figure 1 The CAMS meeting 12 November 2014 in Heesch the Netherlands How to start with CAMS 3 What do you need The Benelux CAMS network is operated by volunteers without any external funding All participants bought their required equipment at their own expense which may also explain the strong motivation to make good use of the invested budget in the CAMS equipment Contrary to most other video networks the Benelux CAMS network uses the same hardware for all currently 45 operated cameras This is on purpose to exclude any bias in the data caused by technical artefacts or side effects caused by some mixture of totally different optics camera s or frame grabbers In more recent times experiments with cheaper camera s yield satisfying results but also the newest cameras in the network are still identical to the recommended CAMS hardware The CAMS are all equipped with Pentax 12mm f 1 2 lenses and have a rather small FOV of about 22 5 x 29 9 degrees Such small FOV yields more accurate astrometry measurements compared to wide angle optics The Watec 902 H2 Ultimate camera s compensate the number of recorded meteors in such small FOV by the high light sensitivity The number o
13. the EzCap Video grabber the material can be bought from different suppliers but as far as known the following offers proved to be the best buy as all other suppliers were significant more expensive If you are new to this we recommend to discuss your plans for a purchase with participants who already operate camera s and who may advise on some options There are many types of Watecs lenses cables plugs etc Be sure to order the right items In case of doubts check with a friend So far suppliers in the Netherlands or France proved to be very expensive Ordering for two or more cameras at once will save money on the shipping fees In principle you can order all items How to start with CAMS from 4 different companies Techport24 Watec 902H2Ultimate vd shop lens and adapter EZCAP frame grabber and Conrad cable power supply and BNC adaptor The existing CAMS stations ordered in general from the following 4 suppliers camera WAT 902 H2 Ultimate http www techport24 com Watec CCD Kameras SW Kameras 3 14 html Pentax 12mm f 1 2 http Www vd shop de 120mm cmount objektiv h1212b p 391 html C CS Mount Adapter LC http Www vd shop de 5mm adapter zwischenring zur aufnahme von cmount objektiven csmount kamer p 131 html EZCAP 116 Video Grabber 116 EZCAPTURE USB 2 0 Video Capture Device _ http www ezcap tv CCTV video cable http www conrad de ce de product 52331 sygonix Verlaengerungskabel Video Kombikabel 10 m 435
14. this will affect the reliability of the data for any meteor in frames affected as such and yield less meteors for trajectory and orbit determination If the number of dropped frames runs into many hundreds or thousands per night you are strongly recommended to upgrade your PC or at least to identify the cause of the problem in order to solve it 4 1 Keep your CPU reserved for CAMS While all CAMS programs run in the DOS prompt window all versions of Windows can be used but the reliability of MS Windows as system has indeed a very poor reputation Even if you run only a single program as a user the software producers made plenty of active routines to maintain the operating system some of these routines run hidden in the background For instance Windows is How to start with CAMS very much concerned about its frequent updates and will continuously check for updates make downloads and install updates in the background Default settings of many software packages tend to load the programs when the PC is started and this way consume CPU even without any use by the PC owner As a consequence at some moments your PC will have much of its CPU saturated by automatic maintenance and upgrades of software To avoid unfortunate interferences it is strongly recommended to block all checking uploading and installing of any software including Windows itself This is quite time consuming as the software producers made it as difficult as possible for the users
15. to alter anything of the default settings Check the functioning of your PC on unsolicited CPU usage by idle routines or unused programs that run in the background your Task manager may help to locate how the CPU of your PC is being eaten by unnecessary procedures 4 2 Keep your PC clock synchronized The quality of the clocks in a PC is in general very poor Windows can be set to adjust this clock via time references on internet Since PC clocks tend to deviate during the capture sessions of CAMS the Benelux Cams network uses the freeware Dimension4 to check and adjust the PC clock every 15 10 or 5 minutes You can find and download Dimension4 from internet and adapt the settings in order to keep your PC clock within some 0 01 s of a second Dimension4 can be downloaded from the following URL http www thinkman com dimension4 download htm With the web service http time is you can check the accuracy of your PC clock Remember that Earth speeds at about 30 km s on its orbit around the Sun A poor timing causes a poor determination of the exact position while a too large scatter on the recording timings of meteors will also ruin the automatic detection of simultaneous event 4 3 Install the driver of the framegrabber EzCap under c The Benelux CAMS network uses EzCap as frame grabber the device is delivered by the producer with its driver on a DVD Make sure this software is properly installed on your PC Attention in previous CAMS publ
16. 00 stars For most ordinary nights in a city 150 is a realistic number to be used In polluted areas with a lot of cirrus in the sky or for cameras pointed below 45 elevation 120 may be a more recommended number For the Benelux network 100 reference stars is considered to be about the minimum to get sufficient accurate positions However poor circumstances may force you to go down as low as 80 or even 60 stars Although this should be avoided when circumstances allow for more reference stars the principle is to have better some positions for detected meteors than to have nothing at all In the end the Coincidence procedure managed by the network coordinator will identify simultaneous meteors between all reported data and the numeric results for the trajectory and orbit calculation will decide if the data is sufficient accurate to be used or too poor and therefore rejected Pr amen ynau 7 FFviewer exe Navigate to and select the FF Folder m umeros _ FrameGrabCo _ FrameGrabCo 1 FTP AdjustFFI FTP_ApplyCal FTP_CalSumn FTP Camera FTP Capture l FTP Capture t FIR Capture t FTP_CaptureA 7 FTP Capture 1 FTP CaptureT FTP Confirmz FTP MetenrC nter min star count GWTOGI D o 1 11505252123 nter desired C Carcmin gt to cull outliers 1 2015 06 29 21 11 27 J 2015 06 29 21 11 59 j d 2015 06 29 21 16 30 J ConfirmedFiles meteor photos v m m mr OK Ann
17. 010 1 545825e 010 XXy 1 571551e 010 1 537433e 010 Xyy 1 501500e 010 1 540807e 010 yyy 1 873069e 010 1 425036e 010 Mean O C 0 933 0 425 arcmin Magnitude A B logI logvig fit mv vs 2 5 logI logvig B V 1 20 mv 5 80 A 8 96 B 2 50 Magnitude 2 5 C D logI logvig fit logFlux vs Gamma logI logvig mv lt 5 80 c 3 66 D 1 00 logvig log cos vignetting coef Rpixels pi 180 4 Star RA deg DEC deg row col V B V R IR logint logvig logFlux oC arcmin 1 332 71365 58 20126 438 08 195 98 3 34 1 56 2 44 1 59 2 594 0 134 11 751 0 313 2 306 13486 53 55193 299 00 497 00 6 50 0 03 6 50 6 49 1 505 0 085 13 125 1 076 3 303 79562 55 65646 249 01 478 01 6 58 1 06 5 97 5 38 1 556 0 061 13 108 0 869 4 337 29279 58 41520 458 05 148 96 4 07 0 76 3 62 3 19 2 143 0 190 12 128 1 079 5 327 95126 64 89993 291 00 160 01 6 84 0 99 6 26 5 71 1 591 0 068 13 217 0 133 6 324 48010 62 08194 321 01 222 02 4 79 0 24 4 64 4 49 2 104 0 039 12 441 0 854 7 311 95535 47 83187 437 03 542 01 5 60 1 46 4 76 3 96 1 716 0 221 12 669 1 296 8 304 20435 56 04031 248 01 468 01 6 67 1 23 5 95 5 28 1 204 0 053 13 124 1 606 9 325 87692 58 78004 386 09 253 03 4 02 2 23 2 75 1 54 2 754 0 063 11 914 0 144 10 334 55270 62 80439 362 00 130 01 5 74 LG 5 01 4 31 1 477 0 125 12 749 1 499 Figure 19 example of a calibration or cal file note the mentioning of Az end h for the plate centre The Cal file mentions the azimuth an
18. 1 678905e 810 Vcoef 1 845059e 010 uch US CA UCLA Los 4 CAMS test FTP AdjustFF Mean 0 C 1 656 1 020 arcmin mekeener isi eru e A Es ba E FTP ApplyCa Number of calstars used 218 1 338829 0 639802 es See PerfLogs Rd Mean 0 C 12431 639 arcmin Server ntp ucsd edu P i e FTP_CalSumr rogram Iles e Number of calstars used i71 1 666815 8 460812 cation US CA UCSD Academic Computi H a FTP Camerah Mean 0 C 1 861 8 468 arcmin qui erasa rur a a tee Beete amp FTP Capture Af 2 72 Number of calstars used 137 8 884314 8 363891 di Windows FTP Capture Mean OC 4 884 8 364 arcmin PPI T r ca Recover D S EE FTP_Capture Calibrating file FF383_20150630_010127_310_0340488 bin Contact timekeepe d ex Verwisselbare schijf E die 2ynchron econdary E FTP_Capture vg Dvd rw station F L n FTP Capture Rihlintheken Figure 21 Screenshot of the program FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe while running J AutoCalUpdate log Notepad EE File Edit Format View Help FF folder C XCcAMSMCapturedFiles2015 07 03 22 18 55 CAL folder C CAMS CAL Minumum number of stars required 150 User desired mean O C in arcmin 1 000000 Auto Calibrating camera Number 389 Previous calibration file was CAL389 20150703 223012 637 txt 11 arcmin 40 arcmin 73 arcmin 30 arcmin 01 arcmin 90 arcmin 42 arcmin 18 arcmin 01 arcmin 84 arcmin 44 arcmin 18 arcmin 02 arcmin FF389 20150703
19. 222642 698 0011520 bin Nstars 165 Nstars 145 FF389 20150703 222703 178 0012032 bin Nstars 177 Nstars 161 Nstars 131 FF389 20150703 222723 657 0012544 bin Nstars 205 Nstars 187 Nstars 161 Nstars 133 FF389 20150703 222744 138 0013056 bin Nstars 206 Nstars 187 Nstars 157 Nstars 130 FF389 20150703 222804 618 0013568 bin Nstars 205 O arcmin Nstars 187 O 38 arcmin Nstars 154 O 07 arcmin Nstars 126 O 90 arcmin FF389 20150703 222825 097 0014080 bin Nstars 214 O 90 arcmin Nstars 186 O 42 arcmin Nstars 151 O 13 arcmin Nstars 127 O 95 arcmin FF389 20150703 222845 577 0014592 bin Nstars 212 O 87 arcmin Nstars 188 O 40 arcmin Nstars 156 O 11 arcmin Nstars 127 O 90 arcmin 9999900000000000000000000O0O mnnnnonnnnonnnnnnin id YDDYDY DYD YDY YD J n I HOHHHOHH H OH H H H H H H e e e e H H Ht H eo A FF389 20150703 222906 056 0015104 bin Nstars 209 74 arcmin Netars 1RA DC se 1 21 arrmin Figure 22 Screenshot of AutoCalUpdate log and the obtained O C values If no new calibration file is generated under C CAMS Cal this may be because your required number of stars has been estimated too optimistic You should resume the procedure requiring less reference stars While running FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe all the intermediate resulting Mean O C values are stored in a list with as name AutoCalUpdate log This logging file is stored in the corresponding directory C CAMS CapturedFiles yyyy mm
20. 22Q Ausfuehrung 1x BNC 1x DC IN 1x BNC 1x DC OUT 0801019 ref list Adapter 12V http www conrad de ce de product 512798 VOLTCRAFT FPPS 12 18W Steckernetzteil oteckernetzgeraet Festspannungs Schaltnetzteil 12V 1500mA 18 Watt SHOP AREA 17455 promotionareaSearchDetail 005 Cinch stekker BNC adapter BNC bus https www conrad nl nl cinch stekker bnc adapter bnc bus 1 stuks 741108 html queryFromSuggest true 4 Preparing your PC We strongly recommend to use a recent PC with a multi core processor i 5 or i 7 Any older types of processor may handle a single camera but when 2 or more cameras are connected to a single PC the capacity of the available CPU will determine if your PC can deal with the CPU consuming reprocessing routines One frequently encountered problem are the so called dropped frames with other words while the camera is assumed to capture 255 frames in a single bin file at 25 frames per second one or more frames aren t processed but lost The most obvious reason for this is the insufficient CPU capacity If several cameras are connected to a single PC make sure to have enough independent USB ports on your computer as also a poor USB connection can be the reason why dropped frames occurred Always check the power supply if your power adaptor drops out it will also generate dropped frames CAMS will produce a bin file every 10 2 seconds containing 255 frames If one or more frames are getting lost for some reason
21. 344 ela ie SN NornthgBrabant ER rm e Eindhoven Limbu Antwerp Flanders BrusselfBrussels Belgium Senn sp Lille Li ge i P z d Figure 45 Camerafields Ooltgenplaat projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 43 14 5 Heesch NI Operator Erwin Van Ballegooy Position Longitude 51 72769 N Latitude 5 54019 E height 0 015 km Available cameras CAMS 347 Az 121 H 43 CAMS 348 Az 171 H 44 Y 4 Pa d Amsterdam KE A Rm 14 Utrecht Netherlands outhsHolland Gelderland M nster E M aw Y Dortmund North Brabant ina North Rhine Westp Eindhoven Wuppertal i 3 P Antwerp 4 mE Lix Flanders Cologne Nai r n el amp Brussels Belgium n Namur Charleroi Walloon Region Yl mhineland Palatinate Figure 46 Camerafields Heesch projected at 90 km height position July 2015 How to start with CAMS 44 14 6 Ermelo NI Operator Koen Miskotte Position Longitude 52 28971 N Latitude 5 61236 E height 0 016 km Available cameras CAMS 351 Az 140 H 56 CAMS 352 Az 63 H 46 Aurich Groningen tay Groningen e Drenthe Fresland y North Holland plevoland s i 3 7 X Overijssel a e x A dei L d Amsterdam m Ae Je A Utrecht 7 Netherlands south Holland SEa Dortmund NU
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23. 51 051 051 051 051 nad 07 2l 35 46 33 fl an Figure 28 Screenshot of a FTPdetectinfo 000421 000310 000251 000283 000212 000148 Dn A0 If too many clouds occurred the number of false detections can run in the thousands or ten thousands In that case it is recommended to reduce the number of false detections due to clouds with the use of the FTP CloudMitigation exe program under c CAMS clouds with its own deviant Reprocess parameters reason why this program must be run in a distinct different directory Also this program takes only fractions of a second and requires only to select the appropriate directory C CAMS ArchivedFiles yyyy mm dd hh mm sa t will create a new fle for FTPdetectinfo 388 yyyy mm daC txt as FTPdetectinfo 388 yyyy mm ddCM txt indicating that it has been treated by FTP CloudMitigation exe just adding M at the end of the filename How to start with CAMS 30 As our Detectinfo file contains a lot of other moving objects in order to keep the further processing of the data manageable all false detections must be removed visually by the camera operator This is the most time consuming aspect of CAMS for the camera operator and may require few up to 10 minutes of time to do To select the real meteors among the many detections we use the program FTP Confirmation exe When you start FTP Confirmation exe the program asks for the minimum number of frames Here we put 1 but a value like 2 o
24. B 2861 Device SETUP 22 USB 2861 Device l 3 Device lt s found There is more than one video device on this computer select number 2 Figure 23 Screenshot of the old FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe version where the duration must be entered in decimal hours 3 ENCAMSFTP CaptureAndDetert nieuw exe E ws UITDEOTNPHT LIBRARY 6 1995 TFUB mens Enter the archive flag amp H HO 1 COPV 2 MOUE 1 HobDetect 2 Enter the camera number 376 Enter the duration in thours or sun elevation in degreez B Enter the CANS directory location Cwithout GRH5 5 c Figure 24 Screenshot of the new FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe version where the position of the Sun below the horizon must be entered When operating 2 4 or more cameras and if your PC has sufficient capacity some variants of this program are very handy FTP CaptureTwoAndaDetect exe and FTP CaptureFourAnabDetect exe As these programs optimize the use of a number of program routines running FTP CaptureTwoAndDetect exe consumes significant less CPU than to run two times FTP CaptureAnabDetect exe in parallel How to start with CAMS In Camesrit owe Vacu Deters ate e ses UIDEOINPUTI LIBRARY 8 1995 TFUW7 seeeex Enter the archive flag C NO 1 COPY 2 MOUE 1 NoDetect 1 Enter the ist camera number 383 Enter the 2nd camera number 388 Enter the duration in thours or sun elevation in degrees 8 Enter the CAMS directory location l
25. CALamewcezniencdts oS 23 71 1129 15 06 29 2116 30 er v File Datatype Confirmation Process Layout Window Help Deze pc External video Prullenbak CAMS logbook t t e Paint installing on Windows8 1 png FTP MeteorCALA a r am Verwisselbare schijf E Synchroncect UU eld Ovd rw station F Current Status Rahlintheben l Server Status u me SE Figure 35 Screenshot of CMN binviewer doing confirmation with a typical false detection caused by a plane 15 iterns tem geselecteerd 3 85 k How to start with CAMS 35 Figure 35 Screenshot of CMN binviewer running confirmation with a real meteor track 13 Results and feedback for all participants Most CAMS stations function on each clear night even partial clear nights with moonlight or any severe weather Some people have organized themselves in such a way that they can continue their cameras even from some holiday resort abroad using remote access and Auto Cams To monitor the meteor activity on a continuous bases it is indeed important to cover as many nights as possible and in spite of the rather unfavourable climate in the Netherlands most participants manage to capture meteors in about 50 of all nights or even more With a continuous flow of data it is important that no backlog is generated in order to keep the co ordination workable As the network expanded the amount of data increases as well as the exposure to poten
26. CAMS Cameras for All sky Meteor Surveillance Manual for the CAMS BeNeLux network Edition July 2015 by Paul Roggemans Introduction CAMS stands for Cameras for All sky Meteor Surveillance and was set up by the team of Peter Jenniskens and Pete Gural to validate minor meteor showers The project was funded by NASA s Planetary Astronomy program in July 2008 In first instance two CAMS platforms were planned with 20 camera s each installed at Fremont Peak Observatory and Lick Observatory both in California USA Solving all the software challenges required a lot of effort and a first test video took place in 2009 during the Lyrid Shower maximum The first digital video recording proved to process the data too slowly for a night of data before the next night arrived This was solved by the implementation of a new Video Management System in May 2010 The system installed at Fremont Peak Observatory proved to function well as tested in August 2010 While the formal installation at Lick Observatory took a bit of delay a third 20 camera station was agreed to be installed at Mountain View The first light for CAMS took place on 11 November 2010 when Pete Gural had the processing and coincidence software ready With only 22 of the 40 camera s operational at only two sites of the three sites planned 15 orbits were obtained while until then only 11 accurate orbits were known for the date corresponding to solar longitude 222 Peter Jenniskens determin
27. Cam Lat N Long W Height km Camera File Name Code Station Name 001 51 57166 3 53716 321 452 26372 6 78685 322 452 26372 6 78685 mee 323 2452 26372 6 78685 S 324 452 26372 6 78685 325 452 26372 6 78685 000 W902H2U 12mm txt OP O 028 W902H2U 12mm txt HG Hengelo 020 W902H2U 12mm txt HG Hengelo 020 W902H2U 12mm txt HG Hengelo 020 W902H2U 12mm NTSC txt HG Hengelo 020 W902H2U 8mm txt HG Hengelo Se oo oo CO GO o eo o Gi C o C Co co E 331 451 57166 3 53716 W902H2U 12mm txt HE Hengelo 341 2451 68300 4 35116 003 W902H2U 12mm txt HE Hengelo 361 52 15336 4 67175 002 W902H2U 12mm txt AR Alphen a d Rijn 383 51 00934 4 48139 012 W902H2U 12mm txt ML Mechelen 384 51 00934 4 48139 012 W902H2U 12mm txt ML Mechelen 388 451 00934 4 48139 012 W902H2U 12mm txt ML Mechelen 389 51 00934 4 48139 012 W902H2U 12mm txt ML Mechelen 390 51 01215 4 48248 018 W902H2U 12mm txt ML Mechelen Wi Complete this file and make sure the adapted copy is under c CAMS as well as under c CAMS CAL Figure 3 A most important parameter file Camerasites txt which needs manual completion whenever a new camera is added This file is needed to compute all positional data for your observing location Determine the exact position of your camera with GPS or with Google maps Attention Your CAMS camera number is a unigue code to link your data to a specific geographical position of your camera All further computations assume that the posit
28. D i WIN mum EEPE ame si dig NK o wt ai ai SI I Tai al bai Be xi Ea l NT I A as To xi xi x MX xi LL o MM Fee pet rd AEA ec RA S Be EISES RR js P im jeden U 4 4 gi x xi xix Fi x Exi Exi xp xi xi PH SONS NYDD EE Et d E Mri L P wi 1 H pa EGA PA EIR T Ae NAE 1 T 1 1 1 D ei ES SEE AME WR xix NM ln e as JD i D a 5 Td D EECH To How to start with CAMS With this list an updated overview is provided with the number orbits obtained for each calendar date Figure 38 The table with the accumulated number of orbits since 2012 Figure 39 clearly proves that CAMS Benelux is well on the way to achieve the initial target of Peter Jenniskens obtain at least 100 precise orbits per degree of solar longitude in three years of CAMS operation Few days after the end of each month a list with all the multiple station meteors is sent to each participant which allows to check which meteors were double station and with who Figure 37 Although we will take a bit longer than 3 years Finally the network coordinator circulates results from the Coincidence procedure for peculiar meteors The graphical display shows the light curves as derived from the different cameras the 3f beginning and ending height with the length of the meteor as well as the projected ground track in geographical coordinates Any deviant timing will show up as a shift on the projected trails Figure 40 2015 Januari Fo dw
29. Pdetectinfo 0383 2014 12 O6C txt FTPdetectinfo 0384 2014 12 06C txt and FTPdetectinfo 0388 2014 12 O6C txt becomes FTPdetectinfo 038303840388 2014 12 O6C txt Send this final summarized FTPdetectinfo file together with the latest applied calibration files to the Benelux CAMS network coordinator The Benelux CAMS network holds a solid reputation having all participating camera operators transferring their data within 24 hours to the network co ordinator Some manage even to report within hours after the observing night The discipline of all participants is rewarded with a frequent and detailed feedback from the network operator How to start with CAMS 33 12 Alternative programs for CAMS In recent times CMN Croatian Meteor Network made a user friendly tool available to view the contents of the bin files to generate pictures of the captured meteors and also to do the confirmation of the FTPdetectinfo files To download and for the user manual please visit The program is very straight forward To get started you select any directory with bin files the list of available bin files will appear at left selecting any of these bin files will generate the corresponding image at right You can choose between different types of views of the image and you can save the image as BMP or JPG One of the most interesting functions is the CAMS confirmation contrary to the original CAMS confirmation routine CMN binviewer allows you to go back and
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31. W FAFTP CaptureAndDetect new exe UIDEOINPUT LIBRARY B 1995 TFPFUH7 se Enter the archive flag H NO 1 GOPY Z MOUE 1 HoDetect 1 Enter the camera number 383 Enter the duration in hours or sun elevation in degreez H Enter the CAMS directory location without CAMS2 c Cie should be under Figure 16 Screenshot of the window of FTP CaptureAndDetect exe version 2013 The program FTP CaptureAnaDetect exe allows you to capture frames at a rate of 25 per second in respective bin files of 255 frames during 10 2 seconds These binfiles are very compact binary compressed image files each having a size of 1 2 Megabyte An average night produces about 3 5 Gigabyte of data The first night you don t have the plate constants or calibration data yet for your camera and field of view FoV In that case you can enter 1 as archive flag and then your camera number the duration you wish to run the camera make sure to stop before sunrise and the USB port number on which your camera is connected This program will store many hundreds of bin files into the folder c CAMS CapturedFiles After the observations you will have to do a manual calibration using the program FTP MeteorCal exe We ll look at this in detail a bit further Once you obtained such a calibration file you should run FTP Reprocess exe This program will analyse all captured bin files for any suspect moving objects that may be meteors Each bin
32. a field The result of this astrometry will allow you to compute precise positions of any unknown object relative to the known star positions taking into account the optical parameters of your camera lenses While a pixel of your Watec camera corresponds to 1 3 arc minute the aim is to approach an accuracy in all computed positions of 1 arc minute How to start with CAMS 21 If the orientation of the two star fields doesn t match you may have to rotate the star map a bit to recognize the star field especially for camera fields near the celestial poles You have the following control functions with your keyboard Figure 18 Functions during calibration The procedure to follow is quite simple You point the cursor at a star in the field of view of your camera rectangle at left and you click on the corresponding star in the star map at right You confirm to match the stars by hitting Enter Return Repeat this for 6 stars and then the program has a temporary solution to be able to suggest matching star positions in the camera field of view at left and the star map at right When you are sure the suggested stars are identical in both rectangles then confirm with Enter Be careful The suggested stars are not always correctly identified by the program If the suggested stars do not match skip to the next suggestion by hitting F on your keyboard Especially for high declinations the temporary solution may point to very wr
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35. best thing to use is a plastic screwdriver Using a metal screwdriver for these settings can easily damage the main board inside the camera Be careful with any metal screwdriver AGC automatic gain control at LO In the online manual for single CAMS you may find recommendations to use MGC manual gain control and to use the screw at MGC to adjust from L to H to obtain slightly more stars for calibration and to detect more meteors However the procedure is rather difficult as the right balance between more gain and background noise is not much different from what the AGC at LO produces GAMMA OFF The higher the gamma setting the higher the noise In addition the higher the gamma setting the lower the number of brightness levels which is not good for getting accurate photometry measurements 9 9 Third step connect the cables Connect your video cable to the Watec 902H Ultimate as well as the power plug from the 12V power adapter le connection Power Figure 10 connection of video cable and power supply How to start with CAMS 14 Connect the other end of your video cable with the small NBC cinch adaptor to the yellow plug of the EzCap Framegrabber Plug the Power Adaptor to some electricity plug and connect the USB of the EzCap into some USB connection on your PC Now you are ready to test your set up at the night sky EzCAP116 ter your Teasured y EzCAP DC60 H li vd Capture Xbox 360 Mavs
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37. d height of the centre of view and allows you to adjust the pointing of your camera at the correct azimut and elevation as provided by the network coordinator in order to optimize the overlap of your camera with others in the atmosphere where the meteors appear If you see in your first Cal file that the aiming direction of your camera isn t satisfactory then adjust its direction to approach the desired position and resume the procedure described above Depending on your skills to estimate the required correction in azimuth and elevation you may have to repeat the procedure a number of times to achieve the desired aiming direction The manual calibration program depends on your visual abilities to confirm the star associations correctly which is not always easy Therefore it is useful to try to obtain even a better calibration file by using the program FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe This program requires the availability of a valid Cal file for your camera either obtained with FTP MeteorCal exe if it is your first capturing night or from a previous night if you are working night after night with a fixed camera How to start with CAMS 23 Even for a small sample of 3 bin files the program FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe will manage to find the best astrometric solution possible To take advantage of this start FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe Enter the number of reference stars you wish to use For a perfect transparent dark sky you can require 2
38. d motion under CACAMSArchivedFilesyyyyy mm dd hh mm ssV FTP ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe to correct the positions referring to a previous calibration file with the latest calibration file e Start FTP ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe e Navigate to the right directory CACAMSArchivedFilesyyyy mm dd hh mm ssV e This takes only fractions of a second Close the window when finished FTP Confirmation exe to select the real meteors among the many detections and to delete the false detections e Start FTP Confirmation exe e Enter the minimal number of frames enter 1 2 or 3 e Select the right Detectinfo file under C CAMS ArchivedFiles yyyy_mm_dd_ hh mm sei e Remove false detections by any key confirm meteors by Enter e The program will close automatically when ready 8 First light for your camera The most delicate aspect of the set up is beyond doubt getting your camera focused and pointed at the direction which the network coordinator provided in order to optimize the overlap of your camera with the camera s at the other stations To focus your Pentax lens use the program CameraLiveViewer exe When other cameras are connected to your computer the screen will list all Capture Devices found and ask you to select the corresponding number of the USB at which your camera is connected The first time you may have to discover with try and error which number you should enter Best is to note which number goes for which device Changes in configu
39. e FTP CaptureTwoAndDetect exe iles e s FTP Confirmation exe iles x85 FTP MeteorCal exe FTP MeteorCa AutoUpdate exe S FTP MeteorCal Update exe FTP MeteocMowvies exe Pdetectinfo 03230328 2015 06 29C tx v FTP Detection Files FTPdetecti v Annuleren Openen Figure 29 Screenshot of FTP Confirmation exe when started Next five windows are opened on your screen e Top left a video fragment of the detection or track with two parallel lines marking the suspect moving object e Top right a stacked image of all 255 frames of the binfile showing the accumulated illuminated pixels and thus everything recorded during the 10 2 seconds duration of the bin file captured This view allows to verify at once if there was a single or more events detected e Bottom left available functions and active radiant list with the expected direction of motion for meteors from any active meteor shower e Bottom centre the details about the event being analysed During confirmation you have the following functions available Enter Return Confirm detection as a meteor Backspace Step back one track F f Or Forward skip to the next bin file with detections H h Hundred tracks skipped ahead Any other key Skip to next track How to start with CAMS Figure 30 Screenshot of FTP_Confirmation exe when running showing a typical false detection caused by a plane Most detections will prove to be due to plane
40. e night of CaptureAndDetect After a routine observing night four steps must be done e Create a new cal file valid for the night and this for each camera lt 1 minute of work e Run FTP_ ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe for each camera lt 1 second of work e Incase too many clouds occurred clean up with FTP CloudMitigation exe e Select the real meteor detection among the many detection using FTP confirmation exe e Mail the final Detectlnfo txt and associated Cal file to the network coordinator HM Cansole Window Start Delen Beeld Beher n e h Knippen v tr Alles selecteren Ub Verplaatsen naar X Verwijderen k 2 k Pad kopieren Fj Hetz selecteren Kopieren op 1 a Th Naam winaden Nieuwe tigenschappen P LE Kopieren naar ED Naam wypger ro mer U M pp diia Gs T Dezepc Boot C Cams 4 Documenten lasm Jewiitiad os EZ ote i 8 Downloads m e ArchwedFiles estendsmap avoneten b CAL 4 estandsma P Koppelingen ur Koppeing D Capturedfiles A Muziek Confirmedfiles Laf estandsmer A OneDrive h meteor photos stland r Opgeslagen spellen D test B Video s Ibat logfile ES nd Zoekopdrechten a Besch CAMS d 8 gt 245 Hemyyate ta and cesect tre w T9 doaseetinio lle ro proces B Deze pc BIN AUD TG S adis Ms ch 2 X i CameraLiveViewer exe Afb T s Deepc Boot C Cams ArchivedFiles 2015 06 29 21 11 59 eke p ge aninge
41. e schigf E FTP_MeteorMovies exe Toepa rs Synchionazed va Dvd rw station Fi gt v Current Status Sleep Riflietheken 57 items item geselecteerd 17 5 kf e Server Status Figure 27 Screenshot of FTP ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe How to create a cal file using FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe has been described above How to start with CAMS 29 Running FTP ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe asks only to select which Detectlnfo txt file has to be corrected by the new cal file Therefore select the appropriate CACAMSArchivedFilesyVyyyy mm dd hh mm sei This program wil be done in just fractions of a second and create a new file for FTPdetectinfo 388 yyyy mm dd txt as FTPdetectinfo 388 yyyy mm ddC txt with the corrected positional data valid for the Cal file mentioned above each meteor data Always checked the FTPdetectinfo file has been properly corrected and has a C at the end of its filename Help Meteor Count 000024 File Edit Format View FF folder C XCAMSConf irmedFiles 2015 O6 12 21 27 45 CAL folder C XCAMS Y Cal FF file processed CAL file processed Cam Meteor 5egments fps hnr mle bin Pix fm Rho Phi Per segment Frames Col Row RA Dec Azim Elev Inten FF388 20150612 214047 353 0019200 binRef to bin file with meteor CAL388 20150613 004 45 144 rtxt Ret to cal file applied foi for positions 0388 ODDI 0012 0025 00 058 7 028 3 10 0 0 108 001 1 0232 0 0209 36 0354 18 328 21 O61 ee 0
42. ed his goal To obtain at least 100 precise orbits per degree of solar longitude in three years of CAMS operation Step by step Pete Gural improved and completed the CAMS software like the recalibration tool the orbital element part etc during the first months of 2011 On 23 April 2011 the third station at Lick Observatory was finally operational The Mountain View station moved to Lodi in May 2011 In June 2011 Pete Gural was ready with his one camera version of CAMS for testing This would allow amateurs to join into the CAMS project Dave Samuels was the first to start operating one Watec 902 H2 Ultimate camera as first Single Camera CAMS station on 15 August 2011 Two of the CAMS units from Lodi were moved to Europe and observed the Draconid outburst of 8 October 2011 successfully The Draconids observing project involved some Dutch amateurs who became the first European amateurs to get some experience as CAMS operators After the successful Draconids observations Peter Jenniskens stayed a few weeks in the Netherlands and operated four cameras on five nights 21 27 October 2011 from two stations with Carl Johannink at Gronau Germany A talk on CAMS by Peter Jenniskens at the annual meteor observers day in Heesch the Netherlands triggered a lot of interest among Belgian and Dutch amateurs Also the impressive results obtained the week before put more amateurs to dream about Single CAMS in the BeNeLux Meanwhile Dave Samuels contributed on av
43. ength mm 8 0 Focal ratio 1 4 Pixel pitch H um 9 92 Pixel pitch V um 9 92 Spectral response B 0 20 Spectral response V 0 80 Spectral response R 0 80 Spectral response 0 20 Vignetting coef deg pix 0 100 Gamma 1 0 Note 1 Spectral responses for flux to be re normalized to unity sum Note 2 Pixel pitch is the effective pixel dimension in micrometers on the focal plane after digitization in the computer Note 3 Vignetting is cos vig coef pixel distance from center 4 STARSSTH VBVRI txt The star catalogue required for the calibration astrometry to be stored under C CAMS ReprocessParameters txt For the detection to be stored under C CAMS Check if you got the right version Note that FTP CloudMitigation exe requires a slightly different version and therefore must be stored in a separate directory Max number of detects per image pair 32 Max number of tracks per FF file 256 Max number of frames to save away from peak 100 Hough rho max spacing to be a duplicate pixels 10 0 Hough phi max spacing to be a duplicate deg 10 0 Maximum time difference to be same meteor sec 1 5 Maximum centroid spacing for crossing pixels 3 0 Std dev factor of intensity to cut off track 4 0 Minimum count of intensity to cut off track 100 Interleaved O no 1 odd even 2 even odd 2 Do not process if Moon within FOV amp fraction lit gt 2 0 FTP compress SP for faster reprocess
44. erage 20 trajectories per night with his single CAMS to the main CAMS stations in California As the CAMS project produced thousands of accurate meteor orbits it proved most successful to meet its target to confirm the minor meteor streams listed in the IAU Working list of Meteor Showers Several minor showers were confirmed and documented in a number of papers published in the Journal of the IMO End 2011 the total harvest in orbits by CAMS was 39 500 orbits with as top night 13 14 December 2011 when all 60 cameras of the 3 stations one single CAMS camera were operational and yielded as many as 1 586 meteors At the end of 2014 the CAMS project had collected 232 000 orbits Two stations had been installed in New Zealand and some local single CAMS networks had been started Although started much later than the Sonotaco Network CAMS totalled significant more orbits in three years of time than Sonotaco or any other video network How to start with CAMS 2 BeNeLux CAMS network The network started with 4 stations in the Netherlands Oostkapelle OK CAMS 331 operated by Klaas Jobse got a perfect double station partner with Ooltgensplaat OP CAMS 341 operated by Piet Neels They did the first couple of test runs in March 2012 It were the first stations using PAL type cameras and the first network setup independently from the main network in California Gronau GN CAMS 311 operated by Carl Johannink got Hengelo HL CAMS 321 operated by Mart
45. essing two times Cirl P after 36 seconds One such bin file is enough to run FTP MeteorCal exe and to obtain a first valid calibration or Cal file Starting FTP_MeteorCal exe you will be asked to enter your camera number to be calibrated Next the Field of View width is asked this is 29 30 but we enter 32 or 35 to have a little bit margin some take even 40 Next the right ascension and declination of the field of view are asked The star field shown in the upper left rectangle should help you to estimate this quite accurately with a otar Atlas For those not familiar with practical astronomical observations this may be sometimes difficult to recognize the constellations and star field shown Anyhow try to give this centre of view in R A and declination with 2 of accuracy If you are not familiar with the constellations ask a friend amateur astronomer for help with this Once the field of view has been entered the corresponding star field will appear in the upper right rectangle The CAMS software includes a txt file STARS8TH_ VBVRI txt which is a complete star catalogue with positions and brightness of 77 327 stars up to visual magnitude of 8 5 On basis of this list of stars the CAMS software shows the star map corresponding to the region around the center of the field of view which you have entered In the next step you ll apply some steps to do astrometry or with other words to determine the plate constants of your camer
46. f meteors that these CAMS register on average is such that statistical significant datasets can be recorded The system can function with partial cloudy sky under a moonlit sky and is still highly effective under severe light polluted skies When working with single CAMS it is most important to optimize the intersections of the camera s FOV at the meteor producing layers in the upper atmosphere in order to obtain the optimal number of multiple station meteors Another important factor is the geometry station 1 meteor station 2 A too short baseline between two CAMS stations provides a too small parallax to enable a sufficient accurate triangulation A too large baseline on the contrary reduces the probability to record the same meteor from very different distances and produces relative large error margins on the positional measurements of the meteor trajectory J A gt e f Charleroi MA S Viaams Gewestantwerpen 383 Zuid Holland AS EU W R b fet Waals Gewest Noord Brabant i i Mn i i LA Eindhoven bove as Sy 348 r e K Y Eg e Ze Ka Gelderla Arnhem Limburg f 1 y ir M nchengladbach Figure 2 The projection of camera fields 383 and 348 at 90 km elevation with a meteor trail The direction of each single camera is chosen in such a way that an optimal volume of the atmosphere between 80 and 120 km elevation is monitored by two or more camera s Note that the inter
47. file with some suspect movement will be copied or moved under c CAMS ArchivedFiles and a textfile How to start with CAMS 20 FTPdetectinfo txt will be generated with all data about positions etc for the moving objects that were detected calibrated with the earlier obtained astrometry file or so called Cal file Unfortunately FTP Reprocess exe is the most CPU consuming routine in the loop and to reprocess the data for a single camera and a single night your PC may be running for a couple of hours Therefore it is recommended to take advantage of the night time and have your PC do the reprocessing during the capturing session aw Image 2x2 Decimat Stellar Catalog Display Control Function Field of view 32 recommended METEORCAL 1 80 Copyright 2818 Peter S Gural mera number to be calibrated 383 ox te search for FF383 bin files RA amp Decl center of Field of View estimate with star atlas nt pe EJ 2 et a eos 39 rem E 0 Ent Ent En Fi Re Me agnitude Limit for Catalog Display 8 246800 READY for user mouse star selection star mag U 1 20 B U 9 99 R 2 62 IR Figure 17 Screenshot of the program FTP_MeteorCal exe To achieve this from the very first night the trick is to runthe old program FTP_ Capture exe for as little as 0 01 hour which corresponds to 36 seconds of capturing which produce exact 3 bin files You can also do this with FTP CaptureAnaDetect exe pr
48. forth among all tracks using Page Up and Page Down To confirm a meteor you hit enter All validated detections are marked by distinct colours and when finished you have get a summary with the number of confirmations The produced confirmed FTPDetectinfo file s completely compatible with the CAMS format m UMA binfiewer CC3me ArriuienmIienmegra ne z3 31 11 59 ee File Datatype Confirmation Process Layout Window Help Filters Exit Detectec O Maxpixel Colorized Detection Avgpixel NOA HIR SEITEN Mule Min frames 0 255 Calibration amp image features Dark frame dark bmp Flatframe flat bmp e k Deinterlace MM Hold levels e e ER o Led KPT F TI Figure 33 Screenshot of CMN binviewer after selecting a folder with FF files How to start with CAMS 34 m CMN binViewer C Cams ArchivedFiles 2015 06 29 21 11 59 H File Datatype Confirmation Process Layout Window Help Sort FF bins Detected Min frames 0 25 Calibration amp ll Dark frame dark bmp H Flat frame flat bmp Deinterlace 9 Hold levels Online Confirmation key bindings Enter confirm Delete reject Page Up jump to previous image Page Down jump to next image There are 285 images to be confirmed do you want to proceed Save image image levels BMP JPG D 36 Start Frame Embe Embed name End Frame 255 Repeat Gamma EE ms a TWM CEs sn m Mi ins
49. ggemans P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 028 8 pp 66 73 15 2 CAMS results Holman D and Jenniskens P 2012 Confirmation of the July Gamma Draconids GDR IAU 184 WGN Journal of the I M O 40 36 41 Holman D and Jenniskens P 2012 Confirmation of the Northern Delta Aquariids NDA IAU 26 and the Northern June Aquilids NZC IAU 164 WGN Journal of the I M O 40 166 170 Holman D and Jenniskens P 2013 Discovery of the Upsilon Andromedids UAN IAU 507 WGN Journal of the l M O 41 43 47 How to start with CAMS 54 Jenniskens P Gural P S Grigsby B Dynneson L Koop M and Holman D 2011 CAMS Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance to validate minor meteor showers carus 216 40 61 Jenniskens P and Gural P S 2011 Discovery of the February Eta Draconids FED IAUZA27 the dust trail of a potentially hazardous long period comet WGN Journal of the I M O 39 93 97 Jenniskens P 2012 New Meteor Showers Discovered S amp T 20 25 Jenniskens P Duckworth H and Grigsby B 2012 Daytime Arietids and Marsden Sunskirters ARI IAU 171 WGN Journal of the l M O 40 98 100 Jenniskens P Gural P S and Holman D 2013 The established meteor showers as seen in video meteoroid orbit surveys In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference La Palma Canary Islands 20 23 September 2012 Gyssens M Roggemans P
50. ght 0 015 km Available cameras CAMS 386 Az 318 H 51 Sp Figure 55 Camerafields Langemark projected at 90 km height position July 201 5 How to start with CAMS 53 15 More about CAMS Some basic background information has been marked with and is strongly recommended to read 15 1 Technical background CAMS 385 website http www astrolab be cams The CAMS website http cams seti org Single CAMS Manual by Dave Samuels Bettonvil F Johannink C and Breukers M 2014 CAMS BeNeLux In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Giron France 18 21 September 2014 Eds Rault J L Roggemans P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 028 8 pp 55 58 Gural P 2011 The California All sky Meteor Surveillance CAMS System In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Armagh Northern Ireland 16 19 September 2010 Eds Asher D J Christou A A Atreya P and Barentsen G International Meteor Organization ISBN 2978 2 87355 022 6 pp 28 31 Gural P 2012 A new method of meteor trajectory determination applied to multiple unsynchronized video cameras In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Sibiu Romania 15 18 September 2011 Eds Gyssens M and Roggemans P International Meteor Organization ISBN 2978 2 87355 023 3 p 56 Gural P 2013 A meteor propagation model based on fitting the differential equati
51. ications you may read about EasyCap instead of EzCap We use only EzCap no EasyCap as the latter proved to be totally unreliable EasyCap is illegal Chinese copy work of totally worthless quality Since the market got floaded with cheap EasyCap the original producer was forced to change its original product name into EzCap 4 4 Install the CAMS software on your PC e Create a directory with the name CAMS directly under the root c of your PC Copy all the CAMS programs and parameter files directly under c CAMS E Us Boot C 4 Cams ArchivedFiles b CAL CapturedFiles D A ConfirmedFiles meteor photos test L CAMS clouds How to start with CAMS e Create a directory with the name CAMS clouds directly under the root c of your PC Copy the Cloudmitigation program and the specific reprocess parameter file directly under CACAMS clouds e The directories Cal Capturedfiles ArchivedFiles and ConfirmedFiles will be automatically generated the first time associated programs are being used e Use Notepad to add your camera data in the parameter file Camerasites txt and make sure this is copied under cACAMS and a copy under c CAMS Cal e Some of the CAMS program may not run if some dll files are missing If you get that error message Google for the name of the dll file and download this or contact the CAMS network co ordinator F UEWER CMN_binViewer Bestand Bewerken Opmaak Beeld Help ME
52. in Breukers with a less favorable but still suitable baseline The first double station meteors were recorded in March 2012 Once the first stations got started after a lot of problem solving more amateurs joined the CAMS network End 2012 Koen Miskotte and Robert Haas had joined having 10 camera s operational at 6 stations good for 873 orbits obtained in 2012 In 2013 the network expanded further up to 31 cameras at 14 stations good for another 5 685 orbits part of which obtained during Perseids expeditions abroad The number of cameras had increased to 38 by end 2014 adding another 11 288 meteors to the CAMS totals End June 2015 the year total of orbits passed 5 000 while the camera network got at a strength of 45 operational camera s The capacity of the current BeNeLux network yields impressive numbers of orbits at any clear night The rather unstable weather that characterizes the North West of Europe requires a dense network with sufficient overlap between different stations Typically the poor weather circumstances still permit the CAMS stations to function successfully on about 50 of all nights The Watec camera s proved to function very well under intense light pollution and even a Full Moon on a clear night will not affect the results much The CAMS participants meet in person once a year to discuss how to optimize the network improve the coverage of the atmosphere above the Benelux and to discuss results The CAMS team is a dynamic
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54. ion of your camera remains unchanged and that the camera number corresponds with one single geographic position only Whenever a situation occurs that a camera has to be moved to another position a new camera number is reguired Camera numbers can only be attributed by the network co ordinator and will be provided only after a reliable commitment of the participant to operate the camera in a reliable and freguent way 4 5 Reguired parameter files CameraSites txt see above to be stored under C CAMS Cal W902H2U 12mm txt The standard CAMS optics to be stored under C CAMS Cal Camera description Watec 902 H2 Ultimate Lens description Pentax 12mm f 1 2 Frame rate Hz 25 00 Focal length mm 12 0 How to start with CAMS Focal ratio 1 2 Pixel pitch H um 9 92 Pixel pitch V um 9 92 Spectral response B 0 20 Spectral response V 0 80 Spectral response R 0 80 Spectral response 0 20 Vignetting coef deg pix 0 095 Gamma 1 0 Note 1 Spectral responses for flux to be re normalized to unity sum Note 2 Pixel pitch is the effective pixel dimension in micrometers on the focal plane after digitization in the computer Note 3 Vignetting is cos vig coef pixel distance from center 4 W902H2U 8mm txt If you use a 8mm f 1 4 lens as recommended for the zenith to be stored under C CAMS Cal Camera description Watec 902 H2 Ultimate Lens description Pentax 8mm f 1 4 Frame rate Hz 25 00 Focal l
55. n CameraSites bt E Bureaublad er CameraTimeOffsets bit Organiseren Nieuwe map k DC 1D 1EB3 lt D Ls CAMS logbook xisx i T ccumenten u Opgeslagen spellen laa 3ewijngd og Type a e CamsMenu bat ini Video s ownloads L FTPdetectinfo 03830398 2015 06 29 4 i D Muziek ET FFdireckonrietng Toumbwsiis tri Zoekopdrachten B z FFyiewer exe Video s M Deze pc Y FrameGrabConfig US tt oot C Afbeeidingen Pa 2 FrameGrabConfig tb ams k Bureaublad e FrameGrsbConfigPAL bt y da ArchivedFiles DC 1D 1 B3 3 s FIR AdjustFFtimestemp exe CAL Fi Documenten e FTP_ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe CapturedFiles b Downloads A mi FTP CalSummary exe ConfirmedFiles 8 d Muziek 8 FTP CameraMovies exe 7 Y meteor photos H Video s P v FTP Capture bat t i atcht Boot test d n Boot C AME FTP Capture bat log CAM loud e Cams e dg Ze FTP Capture ee e CAMS test e Zu ArchivedFiles m i FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe e ge 345 ebrurkers h A 2015 06 27 21 13 22 B Pent EIB CaptureAndDetect new exe 3344 erfLogs An 2015 06 29 21 11 58 nm 9 e 2 FTP CaptureTwoAndDetect exe togram Files CAL 9 FTP Confirmation exe h Program Files x86 EI FTP M A Bestandsnaam FTPdetectinfo 03230388 2015 06 29 bt v FIP Detection Files FTPdetecti v Windows deca SER p R FTP_MeteorCal_ AutoUpdate exe Ga Recover D Openen Annuleren T V FTP MeteorCal Update exe A4 Ben Verwisselbar
56. ong positions Further some artefacts of the Watec camera may produce bright hot pixels that are erroneously associated to a star by the program Pay attention not to confirm erroneous suggestions of the program especially for your first 30 40 stars as the less stars included in the temporary solution the greater the effect of a complete mismatch If this happens and you see the computed star matching goes nuts best is to start again from the beginning Once you have carefully identified 50 60 stars you may keep the Enter button pressed till the counter stands at 150 or more stars Once you have 150 or even 200 stars selected you should have sufficient reference stars Then you can calculate by hitting c on your keyboard The program will show you the resulting accuracy Mean O C Observed Calculated in arcminutes for the total number of stars used and ask if you wish to remove outliers to improve the accuracy of the astrometric solution further You type 1 yes until the Mean O C gets 1 arc minute e g Number of calstars used 40 0 949523 0 417211 Mean O C 0 950 0 417 arcmin Do another calibration outlier purge 1 Yes 0 No When the desired accuracy is achieved you reply 0 no to the question to remove more outliers and confirm to accept to obtained solution by Cirl P At that point you generate a calibration file or so called Cal file under the directory C CAMS Cal This file will allow to compu
57. ons of meteor motion In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference La Palma Canary Islands Spain 20 23 September 2012 Eds Gyssens M Roggemans P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 024 4 pp 130 132 Gural P 2014 Offbeat and wacky projects using a video meteor camera In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Giron France 18 21 September 2014 Eds Rault J L Roggemans P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 028 8 pp 44 48 Gural P Jenniskens P 2014 Development of the CAMS Spectrograph CAMSS In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Poznan Poland 22 25 August 2013 Eds Gyssens M Roggemans P Zoladek P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 025 7 pp 13 17 Roggemans P Betlem H Bettonvil F Biets J M Breukers M Haas R Jobse K Johannink C Langbroek M Miskotte K Neels P Nijland J and ter Kuile C 2014 The Benelux CAMS Network status July 2013 In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Poznan Poland 22 25 August 2013 Eds Gyssens M Roggemans P Zoladek P International Meteor Organization ISBN 978 2 87355 025 7 pp 173 175 oamuels D Wray J Gural P S and Jenniskens P 2014 Performance of new low cost 1 3 security cameras for meteor surveillance In Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference Giron France 18 21 September 2014 Eds Rault J L Ro
58. r 3 is fine too Next the program will ask you to select the Detectinfo file in the directory C CAMS ArchivedFiles yyyy_mm_dd hh mm se Make sure that you confirm the right detectfile corrected by the latest calibration file C at the end of the file name and if cloudmitigation was applied the version with M at the end of the filename A FTPdetectinfo file can combine one or more cameras the name of this file has as structure FTPdetectinfo 0999099909990999 yyyy mm ddC txt with 999 the camera numbers in this case 4 different cameras m p A e k 4 zb Nieuwe d l nag po A Deze p m JI Documen ten Download e ArchivedFil a t amp CAL Koppelingen n 3 Capturedfile viuziel Onebiwe ConfirmedFil HN di meteor p db Opgeslagen spellen k pr test B Video s i bat_logfile Zoekopdrachten arem g Beschnjving CAMS doc P Deze pc A Cameral iveViewer exe E Afbeeldingen Wu CameraSites tit je Bureaublad Y K CameraTimeOffsets txt Dci na f CAMS logbook xlsx CamsMenu bat ini FrameGrabContig US txt 3015 3 t rab 212 Uo 2 EN J e 18 or o e FrameGrabConfig tt AES fo FTPdetectinfo 03830388 2015 06 29 00 det d re FTPdetectinfo 03930388 2015 06 29C FTP AdjustFFtimestamp exe s FTP ApplyCal2Detectinfo exe FTP CalSummary exe FTP CameraMovies exe FTP Capture bat FTP Capture bat log E FTP Capture exe a FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe si FTP_CaptureAndDetect new ex
59. ration or updates by Windows may cause this number to change so pay attention to check that the right camera number corresponds with the right USB number at each time you use the program When the right USB number has been entered the program CameraLiveViewer exe will show a field of view of about 30 x 22 To get the lens focussed you need to watch the star field on your monitor and try to get it at the sharpest image possible Try to locate the faintest star on your display At the slightest move out of focus you will not see this faintest star anymore This can be a rather time consuming aspect and requires your patience as the better the lens gets focussed the easier the astrometric calibration will work afterwards The slightest touch at the focus ring will alter the sharpness so carefully proceed to achieve the most sharp image possible When you get at the sharpest image possible fix the focus ring with the adaption screw If you already know the aiming direction at the sky for your camera CameraLiveViewer exe will also allow you to point your camera at the right direction Your aiming direction will be given in azimuth and height in degrees Lookup with some tool on internet with which star field the azimuth and height corresponds for your location With a star atlas and your lens in focus it should be relatively easy to point your camera in the right direction The program CameraLive Viewer exe can be closed by hitting two times lt C
60. s especially near airports clouds birds or insects Meteors may be very faint barely visible on the screen hence it is strongly recommended to work in a dark room or at least with sufficient contrast on your screen Small screens of laptops aren t very suitable for this kind of visual confirmation work When clouds generated large numbers of detections the F key may help to proceed faster while looking mainly at the top right window with the stacked image of the entire binfile Figure 31 Screenshot of FTP Confirmation exe when running showing a real meteor trail How to start with CAMS 32 Reconstructed Video Playback during Event Confirmation Commands ke Active Radiants i ki Vorking on 253 of 285 Processing event 11 of file FF38U 28158638 802855 196 9279552 bin Da ne 2815 86 38 60 26 55 196 UT Num Segment 6 MLE SNR 46 5 Binary SNR 6 8 St 9 28 58 12 Ene 159 61 58 09 Start Rou Col 202 68 448 14 End Rou Col 197 48 144 22 Uorking on 254 of 285 Processing event 13 of file FF380_20150630_BW2055 196 279552 bin Da me 2015 86738 88 240 55 196 UT Nus ment i ioUpdate exe E ML 46 H FTP CaptureTwe FTP_MatecrCALA a Ene A Dec 153 48 d Start Row Col 147 475 91 n End Row Col 136 64 4 ewe ApplyCal2Detect as es e 7 sara Figure 32 Screenshot of FTP Confirmation exe when running showing how birds appear to cause false detections PR al T Planes can be easily distinguished but birds that reflec
61. s of which over 3000 will help to obtain an accurate orbit in about 3 years of time The cost efficiency of this system is less than 10 cent for each meteor and about 20 cents for an orbit which is much cheaper than what still photography required cameras and films and also much less time consuming than the old traditional meteor photography The current technology caused a revolution in the progress of meteor astronomy Compared to the extreme expensive Super Schmidt Camera project which results have determined our knowledge about meteor showers during about 50 years todays video technology provides access to amateurs to compete with the legendary Super Schmidt Camera s and do much better For any amateurs seeking some useful kind of activity to make a real personal contribution to science video meteor observing offers a unique possibility for a reasonable budget Table 1 summarizes the items necessary for a single camera set up Table 1 Required equipment and prices in Euro according to recent purchases Watec 902H Ultimate 360 Pentax 12mm f 1 2 118 C CS Mount adapter 2 Ez Cap Framegrabber 35 CCTV video cable 20 BNC cinch adapter 2 Adapter 12V be sure to buy one of good quality 13 Total costs in Euro 550 If not available yet a PC with recent multi core processor 600 If the cameras are installed outdoors security camera housing 50 Most participants from Belgium Germany and the Netherlands ordered all material online Except for
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63. section surface becomes larger for 100 km or higher How to start with CAMS With CAMS video observations we work within the same particle range as the traditional visual observers from very bright meteors untill the faintest 5 meteors While passing clouds light pollution or moon interference will force the visual observer to quit CAMS still produces a lot of results during many nights that are of no use for visual observations Until now CAMS is not used to determine hourly rates mass distribution indexes or meteor flux but it provides highly accurate positions of meteor tracks at the sky trajectory positions in the atmosphere that allow calibration for radio echo techniques light curves and last but not least accurate orbital data To map radiant positions and to track radiant drift the accuracy of CAMS cannot be achieved by visual plotting work The fact that the CAMS networks function most of the nights 24 24 and 777 worldwide makes it highly likely that any unexpected or theoretical predicted outburst can be successfully observed by CAMS which offers an unambiguously meteor stream association based on orbital data The only aspect that might refrain amateurs from taking part in this project is the cost of the equipment required The costs for a single camera for someone who has a suitable PC available require about 600 Euro which is indeed a significant investment However a regularly operated camera will easily capture over 7000 meteor
64. t some city light may look very similar to a meteor appearance In case of doubt if the detection looks very likely a meteor it is recommended to confirm this as a meteor Later the coincidence procedure on the entire network dataset will match only real meteors for trajectory and orbit calculations When all detections have been verified the confirmed binfiles are copied under the directory C CAMS ConfirmedFiles yyyy_mm_dd bb mm seh with as final result a infodetectfile with the data for the as meteor confirmed detections Running the calibration routine and the confirmation after a night of video observing may require as little as 5 10 minutes of your time for a single camera running 3 or 4 camera s at once may require 10 20 minutes The data should been reported by mail as soon as possible to the Benelux network operator As the network coordinator receives data from many stations and in order to administer all these mails efficiently the reporting format is kept as simple and straightforward as possible If you operate more than one camera using different computers or different FTPCaptureandDetect routines in parallel then copy and paste the different confirmed Infodetect files into a single file using Notepad or any simple text editor Adapt the total number of meteors at the top of the textfile copy all detectinfo into a single text file and rename this file with the all camera numbers covered in the file name E g combining FT
65. t without CAMS c Copying LASTSETTINGS txt file 1 filets copied Copying ReprecessParameters txt file 1 filets copied Latest cal filename is CAL383_260156627_ 215251 443 txt Latest cal filename is CAL388_261509627_222623_ 602 txt IDEOINPUT SPY MODE Looking For Capture Devices n gt USB 2861 Device 1 gt USB 2861 Device 2 USB 2861 Device 3 Devices found There are more than 2 video devices on this computer select for camera 383 1 select for camera 388 Figure 25 Screenshot of FTP Capture TwoAndDetect exe Here the position of the Sun below the horizon must be entered L Camera 1 Single Frame or Average of Video Feed zT dB a Camera 2 Single Frame or Average of Video Feed ETP Capture FTP Capture Ve um ess 4 Boot C a FTP Capture Console Window y G B FFviewer exe Default Format is set to 720 by 480 ams trying format RGB24 640 by 480 CAMS clouds FrameGrabCor trying format RGB32 640 by 480 FrameGrabCor trying format RGB555 648 by 480 1 CAMS test trying format RGB565 646 by 486 FrameGrabCor trying format YUY2 640 by 480 J Gebruikers RS Capture callback set S FIR AdjustFFt Device is setup and ready to capture JJ PerfLogs 87 FTP ApplyCal devi J Program Files levice 1 is size 640 x 480 and operates at 25 fps le FTP Calsumm i J Program Files x86 es Setting up device 1 m FTP_Camer
66. tahbon 3 Record A Anu W def footage supports Windows O A tsfa and Vindows Supotied with ArcSof Showbu 3 5 Genuine EZCAP TV EzCAP116 USB 2 0 Video Capture In Stock Ships from Arizona Figure 11 when you bought the right type of EzCap it should look like in this picture How to start with CAMS 15 6 Summary of the CAMS procedures For any beginner the many different programs that come with the CAMS software may be a bit confusing To distinguish between exe files and bat files make sure that your Windows Explorer shows the filenames correctly with the file extension see settings of your file manager Next select the appropriate procedure according to what you need to do choose the right program and double click it to start the program Which parameters you may have to enter for each program is listed under section 7 and has been explained in detail in further sections For people who consult the Single CAMS manual by Dave Samuel be aware that the instructions valid for the USA are not all valid for Europe http cams seti org SingleCAMSmanual pdf Auto CAMS has been reconfigured for Europe by Steve Rau and if you are interested in Auto CAMS we strongly recommend to contact Steve What are you going to do If you use your camera first time e Run CameraLiveViewer exe to focus and to aim your camera in the right direction If you use a PC with limited CPU capacity e Run FTP_ CaptureAnaDetect exe
67. tart and end Most observers put 8 Both old and new version end automatically and both create a logging file capture stats log where the number of dropped frames is mentioned at the bottom of the file We recommend to check the number of dropped frames to verify if your setup functions correctly and your CPU can manage the job Older computers may fail to combine the capture and the CPU demanding Detect Reprocess procedure If you see that large numbers of dropped frames are reported in capture stats log in a systematic way your data risks to become unreliable as some meteor data may be affected by the dropped frames and become unusable for any trajectory or orbit computation In such case there is no other solution than to run FTP Capture exe or FTP CaptureAndDetect exe option 1 nodetect at night and run FTP Reprocess exe during the day On the longer term it is recommended to consider the purchase of a new more powerful computer for CAMS How to start with CAMS xxxx UIDEOINPUT LIBRARY 8 1995 TFUB 7 seeee Enter the archive flag C NO 1 COPY 2 MOUE gt D 1 Enter the camera number 384 Enter the duration in hours 5 1 Enter the CAMS directory location Cwithout CAMS c Copying LASTSETTINGS txt file 1 filets copied Copying ReprocessParameters txt File fileCs gt copied Latest cal filename is CAL384_26156628 666236_244 txt IDEOINPUT SPY MODE Looking For Capture Devices SETUP gt USB 2861 Device SETUP 1 US
68. te accurate positions for all unidentified moving objects detected in the captured bin files How to start with CAMS 22 CAL388 20150312 034144 236 txt Noter File Edit Format View Help Camera number 388 Calibration date 03 12 2015 Calibration time UT 03 41 44 236 Longitude west deg 4 48139 Latitude north deg 51 00934 Height above wGS84 Tkm 0 01200 Fov dimension hxw deg 22 4 X 29 9 Plate scale arcmin pix 2 801 Plate roll wrt std deg 48 462 Cam tilt wrt Horiz deg 11 160 Frame rate Hz 25 000 Cal center RA deg 311 893 Cal center Dec deg 61 769 cal center Azim deg 42 805 cal center Elev deg 46 356 Cal center col colcen 319 500 Cal center row rowcen 239 500 cal fit order 03 Watec 902 H2 Ultimate Camera description Pentax 12mm f 1 2 000 Lens description Focal lengt mm 12 Focal ratio 1 200 Pixel pitch H um 8 600 Pixel pitch v um 8 600 Spectral response B 0 100 Spectral response V 0 400 Spectral response R 0 400 Spectral response I 0 100 vignetting coef deg pix 0 095 Gamma 1 000 Xstd Ystd Cubicxy2Standard col row colcen rowcen Xcoef Ycoef X col colcen y rowcen row Term xcoef Ycoef 1 1 736892e 016 1 647987e 017 x 5 401863e 004 6 097768e 004 y 6 099174e 004 5 408037e 004 xx 6 997675e 010 6 428219e 010 xy 1 188833e 010 1 227669e 009 yy 2 322032e 009 2 739661e 009 XXX 1 447170e
69. tial delays due to postponing habits to report the nightly data Until now most of the data is being reported within 24 hours with only few delays due to circumstances preventing participants from processing their CAMS data All participants receive an overview about once a week with the latest update of reported data showing which stations could work and how many orbits were obtained for the current month This overview allows to check if all the mails with reported data effectively reached the network coordinator This weekly overview encourages anyone who got behind to get back in line with the other CAMS stations to report the missing data Figure 36 How to start with CAMS 36 Figure 37 Screenshot of a monthly listing with details for 7 multiple station meteors H pa 2 T odXuadsu f mf 1 H H Lop i b 1 1 GT 1 i air se NL FSA EET PESE See eee lE ELSE id i ei Sisa r ls ELELELELEI r o at ol ul oi Li I er el ei cH JI DIDI DEDE er Kl mi ual xi xl i iil vi gie KI ei Kl ei el ei GG 2D D EG EIERE wi m elo olti taS bi Sis 5 H H DH i DH DH H 1 1 H T H MENNA idi I Pn oi vixi EE bere een ei en m t n H i H H DH i 1 i 1 H H 1 H H H i H 1 H DH H i 1 1 D r 4s H AL H A bod EI il EE Pu H AL il 2 En H sAN 1 E HA em bod Ge ES A S 1 Sec E d HWNN o MH TH HT TT TT TT TT TT amp A R UU hp LL Pip PPLLETURhbibgidi ESS Pe EWEG DEER MA IR ER T Ten td DO NN NO DA MER Ym 5D Y NEE Fm octo SN HERE e ME Pee Le Td S
70. time analyse the binfiles to detect suspect moving objects Reprocess All suspected bin files are copied or moved under directory C CAMS ArchivedFiles and will need a visual verification by the camera operator to distinguish between meteors and false detections In general less than 109e of all detections concern real meteors Planes birds insects and clouds generate false detections With unstable weather circumstances and quickly passing clouds the number of false positives can amount to many thousands of detections In such case a large part of these false detections can be cleaned up by the FTP_ CloudMitigation exe program under CACAMS clouds with its own deviant Reprocess parameters reason why this program must be run in a distinct different directory Once you start routine video observing with CAMS you start the program FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe In first instance you must choose the way to archive bin files in which moving objects were detected Most people choose to move the bin files under C CAMS ArchivedFiles option 2 to save disk space others prefer to copy the bin files under C CAMS ArchivedFiles option 1 You enter the camera number for which the FTP CaptureAnaDetect exe is started The old version of this program asks for the total duration of the capture amp detect session attention decimal hours with a decimal point In a newer version you can enter the position of the Sun at which the program must s
71. trail can be derived from the intersection of at least two such planes each defined by the position of the camera and the trail The efficiency of the CAMS network depends on how much much volume of the atmosphere can be monitored from different positions at meteor producing layers between 80 and 120 km height in the atmosphere As single CAMS works with seperately pointed cameras it is most important to optimize the overlap between the cameras pointed at a selection region of the atmosphere The network coordinator can propose you some possible aiming directions The current 31 July 2015 overview of operational cameras is documented below E Eda Groningen V c Ten MR AU EJ X e v Fy Alkmaar sderland Nethe rlands ES SI I ku RT lat Figure 41 Participating CAMS stations July 2015 How to start with CAMS 39 14 1 Gronau D Operator Carl Johannink Netwerk coordinator Position Longitude 52 21415 N Latitude 7 01507 E height 0 050 km Available cameras CAMS 311 Az 336 H 51 CAMS 312 Az 238 H 57 CAMS 313 Az 203 H 57 CAMS 314 Az 5 H 55 CAMS 315 Az 233 H 42 CAMS 316 Az 213 H 41 Figure 42 Camerafields Gronau projected at 90 km height position 2 August 2015 How to start with CAMS 40 14 2 Hengelo NI Operator Martin Breukers Assistant Netwerk coordinator Position Longitude 52 26372 N
72. trl gt P How to start with CAMS 18 CMN_binViewer a xxxxx UT DEOINPUT LIBRARY 8 1995 TFUB 7 seeeex UIDEOINPUT SPY MODE SETUP Looking For Capture_ Devices SETUP gt USB 2861 Device SETUP 1 gt USB 2861 Device SETUP 2 USB 2861 Device USB With framegrabbers SETUP 3 Device s gt found There is more than one video device on this computer select number Type 0 1 or 2 Figure 12 Screenshot of the window with CameraLiveViewer exe At this point your camera is ready to be moved at its final position Make sure that your camera is installed at the very exact position like given in CameraSites txt Some people operate their camera without any protection from inside like in the opening of a Velux window Others install their camera in a special outdoors protection housing With your camera tested and focussed you may place it into some protection housing as shown below Figure 13 Outdoors the camera can be built in a standard camera housing used for surveillance How to start with CAMS 19 Figures 14 and 15 an example of a simple indoors installation and an outdoors set up 9 Starting real Capturing Once your camera is at its final fixed position you can start to contribute to the Benelux CAMS network The very first night of observing you need to e Adjust the direction of your camera e Sample a calibration file in order to allow to Capture and Detect from the first night
73. uleren Figure 20 Screenshot of the start with program FTP MeteorCal AutoUpdate exe At the question Enter desired O C arcmin to cull outliers you should put 1 Next the program will ask you to select the appropriate folder under c CAMS CapturedFiles for the night for which you need a new Cal file Figure 20 Next you must select the Cal folder where the program can find an existing valid Cal file for your camera one obtained by FTP MeteorCal exe or from a previous night Then you will see the program selecting bin files and compute the astrometric solution for each of these This procedure may take up to one minute for a long winter night but by running this procedure you can be confident to obtain the best possible calibration file for your observing session Figure 21 How to start with CAMS 24 a Raw Image 2x2 Decimated L Stellar Catalog Display Pruner ys x h Muziek FFdirectoryli y ES irectorylis Xcoef _ 5 335906e 004 Vcoef 6 213961e 004 Video s ES Fr sar sud Xcoef 9 871022e 010 Vcoef 3 180549e 009 i Boot C Fels Wcoef 6 059039e 010 Ycoef 1 322905e 009 M 3 FrameGrabCc Xcoef 3 655965e 818 Vcoef 5 677958e G09 PR J Cams z Xcoef 1 663618e 010 Ycoef 1 506884e 01 K BE CAMS cloud j FrameGrabCc Xcoef 1 537549e 818 Vcoef 1 847659e 810 US CA Systems Re AMS_clouds Xcoef 1 690916e 0i80 Ycoef 1 566404e 010 GYN i _ FrameGrabCc Xcoef
74. with archive flag 1 nodetect e After the observations run FTP MeteorCal exe on a selected bin file e Run FTP Reprocess exe e Run FTP Confirmation exe e Mail your FTPdetectinfo file and the applied calibration files to the network coordinator If you use a PC with high CPU capacity for a first night e Run FTP_ CaptureAndDetect exe with archive flag 2 move e After the observations run FTP MeteorCal exe on a selected bin file to obtain a temporary calibration file e Run FTP MeteorCalAutoUpdate exe to obtained the best calibration file possible e Run FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe e After the observations run FTP MeteorCalAutoUpdate exe to obtain a new calibration file valid for the observing night e Run FTP ApplyCal2Detectlnfo exe e Run FTP Confirmation exe e Mail your FTPdetectinfo file and the applied calibration files to the network coordinator If you use a PC with high CPU capacity on routine night e Run FTP_CaptureAndDetect exe with archive flag 2 move e After the observations run FTP MeteorCalAutoUpdate exe to obtain a new calibration file valid for the observing night e Run FTP ApplyCal2Detectlnfo exe e Run FTP Confirmation exe e Mail your FTPdetectinfo file and the applied calibration files to the network coordinator How to start with CAMS 16 7 Summary of most common CAMS programs CameraLiveViewer exe to view the camera field real time necessary to get the lens focussed and to aim the camera at the
75. y one of good quality 8 A mount and protection for use outdoors if applicable optional 9 Atimer if you wish to run your set up automatically optional 10 An auto iris if you want to protect your Watec against direct sunlight not shown Figure 4 A visual overview of all the items required How to start with CAMS 12 5 1 First step Prepare the Pentax 12mm f 1 2 lens _ a Figure 5 Preparing the lens e Loosen or remove the small screws A on the diaphragm ring and on the focus ring normally 3 screws on each ring Remove one of these small screws A on each ring and replace it by the larger adjusting screws B delivered together with the lens Figure 5 e Fix the diaphragm at 1 2 and make sure that the focus ring rotates smoothly nearby o e Connect the C CS Mount adapter on the Watec 902H Ultimate camera and place the lens on the adapter e Put the complete device on a photo tripod or any other stable carrier Pay attention that the camera should be kept well fixed and protected for slight vibrations 5 2 Second step Set the switches on the Watec 902H BLC Back Light Controll 1 and 2 ON 3 OFF This setting sets the backlight to the full chip and not just a portion of it Figure 6 4 E LI Ik 2 3 PN Bte SHUTTER Mee WAT 902H ULTIMATE LE Figure 6 and 7 the Back Light Control setting and the shutter speed How to start with CAMS 13 Shutter speed to 8 Attention The

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