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A network of meteor stations is being deployed in Morocco with the aim to determine meteor trajectories and their relationships with possible parent bodies. Several meteor showers may be related to known parent bodies, such as the the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which is associated to Perseids. Two stations of meteor observations with Watec cameras were recently installed in Morocco as part of this network, one at the Oukaimeden Observatory and the other at Marrakech. This paper presents the implementation of a software to determine the orientation of the camera, and the preliminary results obtained with the two stations.
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We would like to thank Mr. Tioga Gulon for his constant guidance working with the UFO series software.
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The authors would like to thank the Partenariat Hubert Curien/Volubilis Program (PHC24675QJ, Impact rate in the Earth—Moon System), which provided financial support for the collaboration between Morocco and France.
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Guennoun, M., Vaubaillon, J., Benkhaldoun, Z. et al. Meteor Detection from the Fireball Moroccan Network: First Orbital Results and Links to Parent Bodies. Astron. Rep. 63, 619–632 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377291908002X
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