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The Meteor Captured Before Dawn on Nov. 14

Leonids in Nov.14

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This is the meteor captured during our test videoshooting at Misato Observatory on November 14 before dawn. At the test, we used the complete system that we are using for the actual live.
The left image shows the light meteor and the right one shows two meteors.

The meteor is drawing a line on the image. This is as a result of the dedicated video-image processing method to enable any client with low-performance networks (e.g. 28.8 kbps modem) to capture without fail fast-moving meteors on a screen.
Meteors move very fast and disappear in a moment. Therefore, a mere webcasting received via modem-based low-performance networks, with small number of per-second frames, can result in poor, or even no, reproduction on a screen. So we have arranged a dedicated system to process an image simultaneously, to extract a locus of a meteor and to preserve it on a screen. At this time's live program, we will reset the preservation process at every few minutes. Under this system, you may see on a single screen many lines of meteors at the same time if many meteors appear in less than a same few minutes.

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