The following recording is of FM skip/scatter from the ionized trail of the Stardust Space Capsule, which re-entered over Crescent City, California to land via parachute at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on 15 January 2006, the re-entry time period being within 0956 to 0959 UT (0156-59 pst). The star just to the left of the beginning of the trail is SAO 32862, in Cepheus - the elevation of the star was about 4.56 degrees as calculated by "THE SKY" astronomy software (refer to the SKYMAP images below). The camera used was a Sony F-707 at f2, exposure time 30 seconds beginning at 0957:30 UT, 15 January 2006, looking north from a location about 20 miles south-east of Lone Pine, California - the trail is seen crossing from Cepheus into Cygnus and then dissappears behind the Inyo Mountains. Stardust Space Capsule Re-entry FM scatter 15 Jan '06Ĭropped photo of Stardust Capsule re-entry taken by Earl Wilson of China Lake Astronomical Society. Sorry you can't - for whatever reason - play this audio! I caught a few whistlers the morning of 06 June 2005.» ~ Stephen P. Picture shows the van antennas, the VLF antenna being on the rear of the van on the right. «My favorite summertime listening site west of Lone Pine against the Sierra Nevada mtns. «The (very beautiful) Music of the Magnetosphere and Space Weather»
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