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Welcome to the Desert Fireball Network's public wiki. This wiki contains documentation for the the DFN's fireball observatories and data processing procedures for collaborators and team members. The DFN's website can be found at http://fireballsinthesky.com.au/.

Please contribute where you can by uploading information, designs and files that will help others with installation, maintenance and operation. By documenting your problems and solutions here, you can help other collaborators get up and running faster. We need your help to get cameras off shelves and under the night sky looking for space rocks!

Fireball Observatories

Documentation to help you get your observatory up and running

• Getting Started
• Maintenance
• Troubleshooting
• Getting Help

Fireball Data

How to access your fireball images and information about how the DFN processes fireball ev

• Accessing data captured by Fireball Observatory (still images, videos, logs)
• Finding Fireballs in images
• Data Processing Pipeline

Resources

Collections of things you might find useful. Contributions to this section are especially appreciated

Todo: find a better name for this section

• Mechanical Designs for deploying your fireball observatory (add your stand and roof mount designs here)
• Photos of Fireballs (add your pretty fireball to the galleries here at reduced resolutions for everyone to see; remember this wiki is open to the public)
• Photos of Fireball Camera Installations (upload photos of your finished and in-progress installations here)

Wiki Info

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Global Fireball Observatory Status Summary

Last update: Aug 2019

Region	Institution	Built and Delivered	Deployed	Need Servicing
🇦🇺 DFN (Nullarbor, SA, WA)	Curtin University	50	50	13
🇦🇺 New South Wales	Macquarie University	2	0	0
🇦🇺 Victoria	Monash University	2	0	0
🇦🇺 Australian Capital Territory	Australian National University	2	1	0
🇦🇺 Queensland	University of Southern Queensland	1	1	1
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	Imperial College/Uni of Glasgow	6	2	0
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	National Center for Astronomy	2	1	1
🇲🇦 Morocco - MOFID	Université Hassan II de Casablanca	11	6	4
🇨🇦 Canada, Alberta	University of Alberta	11	6	3
🇨🇦 Canada, Ontario	University of Western Ontario	3	3	0
🇺🇸 Arizona, USA	University of Arizona, LPL	5	1	0
🇺🇸 California, USA	SETI Institute	15	11	3
🇺🇸 Houston, USA	Lunar and Planetary Institute	3	1	0
🇺🇸 Alabama, USA	NASA Meteoroid Environment Office	7	1	2
Total		120	84	27
GFO except DFN		70	34	14

Global Fireball Observatory Results Summary

Region	Institution	Triangulated Fireball Events with Orbits	Certain Dropping Events	Meteorite Recoveries	As of
🇦🇺 DFN (Nullarbor, South Australia, WA Wheatbelt)	Curtin University	973	12	2 (+2 film)	24 October 2018
🇦🇺 New South Wales	Macquarie University	?	?	?
🇦🇺 Victoria	Monash University	?	?	?
🇦🇺 Australian Capital Territory	Australian National University	?	?	?
🇦🇺 Queensland	University of Southern Queensland	?	?	?
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	Imperial College	?	?	?
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia	National Center for Astronomy	?	?	?
🇲🇦 Morocco	Université Hassan II de Casablanca	?	?	?
🇨🇦 Eastern Canada	University of Western Ontario	?	?	?
🇨🇦 Western Canada	University of Alberta	?	?	?
🇺🇸 Arizona, USA	Universtiy of Arizona	?	?	?
🇺🇸 California, USA	SETI Institute	?	?	1
🇺🇸 Houston, USA	Lunar and Planetary Institue	?	?	?
🇺🇸 Alabama, USA	NASA Meteoroid Environment Office	?	?	?
Total		973	12	2