UKMON was established in 2012 as the first meteor detection network in the UK. Since then, the team of amateur astronomers grew to 200+ and ultimately played a vital role in the successful recovery of the Winchcombe meteorite, now on display in Natural History Museum.
In 2023, we collected around a million individual detections and calculated 100,000 orbits.
This much data requires some serious computing power to match observations across the network and triangulate observations to extract orbital data and ground tracks. We use cloud computing to achieve this, with a massively parallel compute engine running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
You can contact us via enquiries@ukmeteornetwork.org