2008 10 21/22 23:15:16 UT PFN 19 Kobiernice
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Next Friday "Fourth Seminar of the Polish Fireball Network" will begin in the Ostrowik Observatory near Warsaw. Invited participants will have an opportunity to hear lectures given by the PFN members and invited guests. We plan to talk mainly about new developments in the network but also about meteorites.

Special guest talk will be given by Igor Soszyński, member of the OGLE team.

Below you can see sketch of the Seminar talks and events. All talks are given in polish.

2008 05 08/09 01:03: UT PFN 24 Gniewowo Krzysztof Polakowski & Halina Polakowska
Nikon D70s 30 s 1600 ISO Zenitar 2.8/16 f/3.5
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Przemysław Żołądek¹, Mariusz Wiśniewski², Arkadiusz Olech², Mirosław Krasnowski¹, Maciej Kwinta¹, Karol Fietkiewicz³, Kamil Złoczewski², Krzysztof Mularczyk⁵, Wojciech Jonderko¹, Izabela Spaleniak⁴, Łukasz Gruszka¹

¹ Comets and Meteors Workshop, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland brahi@op.pl

² Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warszawa, Poland (mwisniew,olech,kzlocz)@camk.edu.pl

³ Warsaw University of Technology, Department of Physics, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

⁴ Astronomical Institute, University of Wrocław, Kopernika 11, 51-622 Wrocław, Poland

⁵ Warsaw University Observatory, al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa, Poland
kmularcz@astrouw.edu.pl

Abstract

The results of the Perseid 2004 observing campaign are presented. Short description of equipment and reduction methods is given. Predicted 1-rev Perseid peak on August 12/13 was confirmed by video and visual observations, moreover another peak of activity was detected the same night around 1 UT. In total 87 meteoroid trajectories and orbits were calculated and resulting mean orbital elements of Perseid stream were presented.

Meteors registered during that night by Miroslaw Krasnowski PFN Poznan

15/16 12 2007 22:51:20 UT PAV10 PFN Czernice Borowe Jarosław Dygos

2007 07 22/23 22:22:58 PFN Złotokłos Karol Fietkiewicz

2007 07 22/23 22:22:44 PFN Poznań Mirosław Krasnowski

20 years of Comets and Meteors Workshop on YouTube.

23:52 UT, Warszawa, Canon 300D + 10-22 mm @ 11 mm, f/4.0, ISO 800 SEE LARGE SIZE