Fireballs in the Sky for Pc

1. Fireballs in the Sky is an award-winning citizen science program that connects the public with the research of the Desert Fireball Network [DFN], based at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

2. Select different options for duration, shape, brightness, colour and hue, and watch how an animated fireball changes to match what you’ve just seen.

3. Together with NASA the DFN is expanding to become a Global Fireball Observatory that aims to understand the early workings of the solar system by studying meteorites, fireballs and their pre-Earth orbits.

4. Through augmented reality, an intuitive interface and sensing technology of this smartphone app, anyone anywhere in the world can recreate their fireball sighting to contribute scientifically useful data.

5. If you’ve ever seen a meteor, or a bright fireball, then you’ve experienced one of nature’s true wonders.

6. • Access our gallery of zoomable images – the fireballs we’ve seen and the meteorites that we’ve found.

7. Using an autonomous network of cameras, the DFN captures the paths of fireballs in the sky, triangulating trajectories from multiple viewpoints.

8. Fireballs in the Sky extends the reach of the observations via the app, with your sightings contributing to this innovative research project.

9. If it looked like it fragmented as it came through the atmosphere you can select different options for number of fragments, and see the animation change accordingly.

10. If you’ve ever wondered what they are, where they come from (and want to contribute to the science) this app is for you.

11. A great thing about the project is that the data are in the form of beautiful images.

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