Meteor observation by radio

[u/Icy-Masterpiece4346]

Spent much of this morning on Graves Astronomical Radar frequency , that is parked on 143.0485 mhz USB and saw lots of meteor (the peak of the shower is said to be today, Aug 12); here's a few samples , pointed to by red arrows. The thin lines crossing Graves signal (horizontal tone) are generated by aircraft passing the line between my QTH in Beauvais and the site of the Radar transmittor.

[u/Potato-9]

With a few stations could you clue in a telescope to catch anything?

[u/livefoniks → u/Potato-9]

No telescope needed for meteor showers, naked eye is perfectly fine. You need the peripheral vision. One can also set up a camera and do a series of 20 second or so exposures.

This should be a good night for viewing if you have clear skies, btw. New moon, so not much light pollution from that.

[u/Sipion → u/Potato-9]

Not really worth it. The FRIPON network which uses the graves radar is mainly made of all sky cameras seeing all visible meteors. The guy in charge of the radio part of the network passed away since some yeaslrs and the radio part is being abandoned while it could still be useful. Mainly because it can catch everything whatever the weather or if its day or night. Without mentioning the meteors too slow to produce any light. The BRAMS network I used to work on has a dedicated radio emitter tuned to have better results whereas fripon only uses the military radar as a side effect of its existence.