"Meteor" Streaks Found From Visual Inspection of Coadds and False Sources

The nights below have been scanned for "meteor" streaks in the science scans, with links to a page giving the detailed coordinates of the streaks and sources found near the streaks, as well as anything unusual in the coadds.

Althought they are described as "meteor" streaks, a satellite would also produce a similar streak (typical motion of 90° in 5 minutes = . An airplane would appear very different - it would obliterate the entire scan, with a typical diameter of nearly a degree!

Summary of analysis so far

North

NightCom-
prssd?
Number of Science ScansTime To Inspect Coadds (minutes)Number of Bright StreaksNumber of Faint StreaksNumber of False SourcesFile with streak coordinatesFile with sources near streakComments
PtExtPtExt
971110no408253723streaksptsources 
971116yes826022??streaks Horrible bright star (beta peg) in scans ~22 to (~30?)
971205??????>5streaks sources 



http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/tchester/2mass/analysis/streaks/index.html
Comments to: Tom Chester
Last update: 31 March 1998