![]() ![]() SonotaCo, EDMOND and CAMS were dedicated to cover the fainter range of meteors in order to study meteor showers. ![]() Other camera networks were dedicated to fireballs in order to locate possible meteorite dropping events, such as the French FRIPON network (Colas et al., 2020), the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (Madiedo et al., 2021), the Spanish Meteor Network (Peña Asensio et al., 2021) and several others. In the United States a major professional video network, CAMS, became operational in October 2010 (Jenniskens et al., 2011). Soon several national and regional video camera networks got started by amateurs across Europe which merged into EDMOND (Kornoš et al., 2014). The SonotaCo Network started in 2007 in Japan with their UFO Capture software (SonotaCo, 2009). One of the pioneers in this field was the Croatian Meteor Network (Gural and Šegon, 2009). The availability of powerful personal computers enabled the creation of video meteor networks dedicated to collect large numbers of reliable orbits necessary to study meteor showers. Since many years experiments have been done with TV and video cameras which resulted in affordable meteor video cameras for amateurs. Meteor radars weren’t affordable for amateurs while the radiants and orbits obtained by radar techniques were much less reliable than photographic results. Radio and radar observations looked very promising in the 1940s, but forward scatter radio echo counts do not allow to identify any meteor shower association. Both visual and photographic meteor work were much affected by weather circumstances and only fractions of ongoing meteor events could be well observed. Meteor photography offered more precise measurements but proved to be expensive and not very efficient. In the early years the only way to study meteor showers was to use the naked eye until photographic techniques became available. Meteor astronomy has been popular among amateur astronomers since the 19 th century. ![]() An overview is presented of the camera coverage at the end of 2021. An important progress has been made in global coverage with the installation of many new cameras in Australia, Brazil and New Zealand. Major progress has been made in the UK where about 100 RMS cameras got installed. At the end of 2021, 390 operational cameras were involved, installed in 22 countries. Since the start of the network, 388545 orbits have been collected, 411 different meteor showers have been identified among these orbits. Paul Roggemans, Denis Vida and Damir ŠegonĪ status update is presented for the Global Meteor Network. ![]()
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