The Orionid and Taurid Meteor showers.

 

The LVST (Lowestoft Very Small (radio) Telescope) display screen 

"Kurt is recovering from COVID and is now testing negative for the infection. As a consequence, his enthusiasm for astronomy has returned and today he has been in the JPO Clean Room assisting Jolene McSquint-Fleming in the fabrication of the bits and pieces for the Seestar Low resolution spectrometer. 

Whilst they were in there, The LVST, software defined radio meteor detector was pinging away as radar waves from the French military installation at Dijon were reflected from ablation plasma as meteors entered the atmosphere somewhere south of Lowestoft. There is some debate as to whether this is the result of forward or back scatter. If the former, the meteors are between Dijon and Lowestoft and if the latter they are located south of Dijon.  What was noticeable was the recorded data showed very little change in frequency for their duration. This implies, from lack of Doppler Shift, that  the track of the meteor was not moving radially with respect to Dijon or Lowestoft .

The weather has not been good over the last few nights but our sponsor, Anita Roberts did see an early morning yellow 'Fireball meteor ' moving from west to east and fast over Lowestoft earlier this month". - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory - The UK's most easterly astronomical Observatory.

"Last night we completed the 3d printing of spectrometer parts and today Kurt painted the inside of the 3 spectrometer hoods with ultra black acrylic paint. Another and final coat of paint will be applied tomorrow, followed by assembly"- Jolene McSquint-Fleming JPO engineer.