"Especial Bólidos y Meteoritos"

ISSN: 1137-9111 Orlando Benítez 2003 (ed)

"Dossier de Observaciones españolas de Bólidos"

ISSN: 1137-9111Orlando Benítez and Francisco Ocaña (ed)

"Observación de Meteoros con Intensificador de Imagen"

O. Benítez, SOMYCE, 2002, p. 177 ISBN 84-607-3819-1

"Manual de Observaciones Visuales de Meteoros"

L. R. Bellot Rubio, 1995, p. 104.

"Introducción a la Teoría Física de los Meteoros"

L. R. Bellot Rubio, 1992, p. 204.

"Manual de Observaciones Telescópicas de Meteoros"

J. E. Méndez Álvarez, 1994, p. 140.

Archivos de Observaciones de SOMYCE (Database in DVD).

Recently, SOMYCE (Sociedad de Observadores de Meteoros y Cometas de España) has edited the first DVD edition with all the Spanish meteor observations: visual scanned observations, video images with MetRec, photographic images, radio counts and telescopic charts. All, collected in a case with four DVD. This data base store about 17.2 Gb.

We have edited a limited edition of 100 copies to send to SOMYCE members, Astronomical Societies of Spain and IMO members. Unfortunately, the cost of this edition it has done impossible to send a copy to all the IMO members, and therefore we have made a selection, and only 21 cases have been sent to IMO members.

This information can be free copied for personal use, divulgation, amateurs and researchers. If you write a paper, this information can be taken indicating the autor and the reference: “Archivos de observaciones de la Sociedad de Observadores de Meteoros y Cometas de España –SOMYCE-, 1ª Edición, octubre 2006.”

Briefly, we resume the information available in each DVD:

DVD1: Visual Meteor Database from 1987 to 1995. All this observations are in JPG images. Are the original reports with data and charts scanned with great effort during last five years. The key is:

DDddMMAAAA-----aNdN.jpg

ej: 2627091998BENORp1d1

DDdd: day

MM: month

AAAA: year

-----: IMO Code

“a” can be:

p: report

c: chart

r: summary

e: train report

NdN: “1d1” or “1d5” tell us how many report, or charts are in the observation.

Photographic meteor database from 1998, and 1999 Leonids and a lot of images classified by months. Some of them are not data, but we collect by historical reasons. Data are in txt or excel files.

DVD2: Comet observations, the rest of Photographic meteor database from November, August and December months. Video Meteor data base from camera TIMES 4 and TIMES 5 with full frame images. If you need a complete data in postdate format, we recommend download the updates files from IMO web site www.imo.net or www.metrec.org

DVD 3: Fireballs report form 1982 to 2003, some photos, and the Telescopic database (charts and reports) All codes are similar to the Visual Scanned reports. Video Data base of TIMES 4: August 2000, 2001 (complete, except March, August, October and December)

DVD 4: Visual Meteor Data Base (1985 and 1986 reports), the rest of the Photographic database and Video observations of TIMES 4 camera (Intensified camera, TIMES 5 is a Watec 902-H)

As you can see, there is a lot of useful information for the meteor observer. If need copy all o part of this information you can contact with us in archivosobservaciones -at-somyce.org More information about SOMYCE can be found in our web site www.somyce.org