NASA will operate 2 shifts in Israel to observe meteors on the night of the Leonids: one is flown, in two planes, which will fly to Israel from England on November 16 and will carry measuring equipment that will contain spectroscopes, to analyze the chemical composition of the meteors, photometers, to measure their light intensity, as well as highly sensitive video cameras, which will record the paths of the meteors
NASA will operate 2 shifts in Israel to observe meteors on the night of the Leonids: one is flown, in two planes, which will fly to Israel from England on November 16 and will carry measuring equipment that will contain spectroscopes, to analyze the chemical composition of the meteors, photometers, to measure their light intensity, as well as highly sensitive video cameras, which will record the paths of the meteors. While flying, the planes will record the meter (they will fly at night). and will arrive in Israel on the morning of November 17. The planes will stay here for half the day and on the evening of November 17th, they will take off, when the distance between them is about 70 km (for the purpose of triangulation), they will make several turns around the Middle East and take off towards the west, to Spain or Morocco. It should be remembered that the forecast is for a maximum meter that will be seen at 4 o'clock world time, that is, 6 am Israel time and the farther you go west, the better the chance of seeing it. In fact, the western coastline of Europe and Africa is the preferred one.
The teams that will be on the ground will operate similar measuring equipment, which will include spectroscopes, light measuring devices (photometers) and very sensitive video cameras.
At Mitzvah Wiz, the sky will be photographed by a CCD camera that will photograph the reflection of the sky through a mirror with an extremely short focal length, which will allow photographing a very large area of the sky. Teams of the Israeli Astronomical Society and the Givatayim Observatory will be dispersed in various places in the Negev and will take photographs and measurements of the meteors starting on November 16.
