IV Seminar of the Polish Fireball Network
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
2008 05 08/09 01:03: UT PFN 24 Gniewowo Krzysztof Polakowski & Halina Polakowska
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The 2004 Perseid meteor shower – Polish Fireball Network double station preliminary results
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.
2007 07 22/23
2007 07 22/23 22:22:58 PFN Złotokłos Karol Fietkiewicz
2007 07 22/23 22:22:44 PFN Poznań Mirosław Krasnowski
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