Institutes which support us

• European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Institutet för Rymdfysik (IRF), Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
• Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Lindau, Germany

Radar-related sites

• Space and Atmospheric Research at the University of Western Ontario
• more to come...

Meteor-related sites

• American Meteor Society (AMS)
• International Meteor Organisation (IMO)
• IAU Commission 22, meteors, dust

Video observations of meteors

• Dutch meteor society, video results
• IMO video observers page
• IAU Commission 22, television meteors

Software

• ViDAS - the Video Data Archiving System created by ESA/SSD
• Astrometrica - determining positions and photometry
• Project Pluto - producer of Guide
• Interactive Data Language (IDL) - used for data evaluation
• Creaso homepage - producer of IDL
• IDL astronomy library at NASA GSFC - gives many IDL routines

Contacts

• mail to: Phil Chilson
• mail to: Andre Knöfel - private homepage
• mail to: Detlef Koschny - private homepage
• mail to: Gerhard Schmidt
• mail to: Joe Zender

Other publications

• Meteorbeobachtungen mit Radar und Video - das SIV Experiment, Ganymed 1/98, AVWM (overview article on amateur level, in German)

Other nice things

• An applet showing an animation of different typical meteors (ca. 100 - 300 k, depending on selected per meteor - works only with Netscape Navigator >4.05, MS Internet Explorer >4.02) - thanks to Thomas Westphal for implementing this!)