- Written by: Hervé Lamy
During the week-end of 9-10 September 2023, the radio astronomical site of Humain opened its doors for the very first time to the public. This event was organized by the Royal Observatory of Belgium but with a strong contribution of BIRA-IASB to present our activities there. In particular we made the traditional live demonstration of meteor radio forward scatter and also explained to the public how our BRAMS interferometer works and why it is important for us. We also show the various type of cameras (GMN, All-Sky7, EN) installed in Humain and which contribute to several important networks of optical cameras.
You can also see a nice broadcast about the Humain website and its history with this link.
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
On August 30, we had the pleasure to organize a radio meteor workshop at the Euro Space Center. There were 21 participants on site and 12 participants online.
The presentations and video of the talks will become soon available on a separate page.
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
From 31 August until 3rd September, we had the pleasure to organize the IMC 2023 at the Euro Space Center in Redu.
All the videos and documents of the talks are available on the Program Page.
Below you can also find some nice pictures of the event including during our excursion to the radio astronomical site of Humain and to Les Grottes de Han (Copyright : Peter Slansky and Coralie Byttebier)
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
We have installed a new station in Hagnicourt, France, South of Charleville-Mézières. The station is installed near an astronomical site which also hosts 4 GMN cameras.
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
A cure of youth for the reflecting grid of the BRAMS transmitter
Over the last few months, rust was propagating fast in the 8m x 8m reflecting grid of the BRAMS transmitter. It was necessary to replace it to ensure a good electrical conductivity. This was done recently by people from our workshop with an excellent result. See pictures before and after below
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
New BRAMS receiving stations at KUL
A new BRAMS receiving station was installed on the roof of a research building in the Arenberg Campus. Thank you to KUL to welcome us. This is another on-going collaboration between BRAMS and a university after already U Mons, U Liège, U Hasselt and U Gent.
- Written by: Hervé Lamy
Fireball above Belgium on 17 April 2023 at 19h32 UT
A fireball was observed by many people above Belgium on 17 April 2023 at 21h32 LT. It was detected also by two FRIPON cameras located in Belgium. See this link for more details.
It was also detected by most BRAMS stations. Here are two examples of spectrograms recorded at our stations in Halle-Zoersel and at the Planetarium
