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PRISMA (acronym for Prima Rete per la Sorveglianza sistematica di Meteore e Atmosfera, i.e. first network for the systematic surveillance of meteors and atmosphere) is a project started in 2016 composed by an Italian network of all-sky cameras for the observation of bright meteors (fireballs and bolides), in order to get the orbits of native objects and to identify with a good degree of approximation the target areas for the eventual recover parts of the meteorites itself.
In Figure 1 you can see the cameras relocation and in Figure 2 a bolide image from the Piombino camera (2022/02/02)

Systematic monitoring of cloud cover and electrical activity will be used for the validation of meteorological models.

The collected data in a systematic way will contribute to the improvement of the models of cosmic objects and their interaction with the atmosphere which still have many gaps due to the poor quality of the observational data.

PRISMA is an open project and a collaboration of people coming from different professional and amateur contests in continuous increase (55 in January 2022) and it is coordinated by Daniele Gardiol, researcher of the Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, supported by a Project Office and by an Advisory Committee.

Figure 1: PRISMA cameras relocation map. Credit: GoogleMaps.

Figure 1: PRISMA cameras relocation map. Credit: GoogleMaps.


Figure 2: a bolid image from Piombino camera (2022/02/02). Crediti: PRISMA.

Figura 2: a bolid image from Piombino camera (2022/02/02). Credit: PRISMA.

Figures 3 and 4 show the location for the camera in the site of Merate of our Observatory

Figura 3: high panoramic view of some offices in Merate site. The red ring shows the position of the camera. Credit: GoogleMaps.

Figure 3: high panoramic view of some offices in Merate site. The red ring shows the position of the camera. Credit: GoogleMaps.

Figura 4: particolare della cupola solare con in cima la camera del progetto Prisma. Crediti: Stefano Basso (INAF-OAB).

Figure 4: the location camera in detail. Credit: Stefano Basso (INAF-OAB).

 

In the following the live image captured by the camera in Merate.

PRISMA image

Figure 5: live image of ouur camera.

 
PRISMA Team
 
 
Project Office
 
Daniele Gardiol - National Coordinator - OA Torino
Dario Barghini - Meteorites analysis - OA Torino
Albino Carbognani - Astrometry e trajectories computation - OAS di Bologna
Mario Di Martino - Public events - OA Torino
Giovanni Pratesi - Meteorites analysis - Università di Firenze
Walter Riva - Public events - Osservatorio Astronomico del Righi
Giovanna M. Stirpe - Public events - OA Bologna
Antonio Volpicelli - Informatics network - OA Torino
Tullia Carriero - Project segretary - OA Torino
 
INAF-OAB Team
 
Stefano Basso - Responsible for OAB-Merate camera
Giuseppe Malaspina - Network manager for OAB-Merate camera
 
Credit for web page: S. Basso - M.R. Panzera