WGN issue 52-4/5 - August-October 2024

The August-October 2024 double issue of the IMO Journal is now in print. It will be mailed shortly and subscribers can also immediately access the journal in PDF format. The contents this month:

• From the Treasurer — IMO Membership/WGN Subscription Renewal for 2025
  M. Gyssens

• Shower Activity in December 2024 and January 2025
  R. Lunsford

• Save the Date: Forty-fourth International Meteor Conference, Soest, The Netherlands, 18-21 September 2025
  F. Bettonvil, S. de Vet

• International Meteor Conference 2024 Report
  I. Clemente, S. E. Deam, D. Giancono

• A non-scientific WGN paper - Our trip before the IMC
  D. Koschny, A. Martínez Picar

• From radio spectrograms to visual meteor observations
  A. Martínez Picar, D. Koschny, A. M. Mascarenhas, L. Maurice

• Extremely long bolide over Central Europe on 19 September 2024, captured in detail by instruments of the European Fireball Network
  P. Spurný

• First Meteor Observations with SPADE
  M. Mascarenhas, L. Maurice, A. Martínez Picar, C. Marqué

• Pulse radar transmitter for the Humain BRAMS array?
  L. Maurice, A. M. Mascarenhas, A. Martínez Picar, C. Marqué

• The EISCAT_3D atmosphere and geospace radar: current status and science outlook for meteors
  J. Kero, D. Kastinen, M. Gritsevich

• Review of Visual Meteor Observations in 2023
  J. Rendtel

• Perseids 2024: First results of visual, photographic and video observations
  P. C. Slansky

• Efforts to improve the IAU MDC List of meteor showers
  L. Neslušan, R. Rudawska, M. Hajduková, S. Ďurišová, T. J. Jope

• Status of the IAU Meteor Data Center—introduction to the new webpage
  R. Rudawska, M. Hajduková, L. Neslušan, S. Ďurišová, T. J. Jopek

• On the Geminid shower orbits and radiant: preliminary results
  G. O. Ryabova

• Meteor spectra and orbits at the Valašské Meziříčí Observatory
  J. Koukal, L. Lenža, M. Ferus, J. Srba, P. Kubelík, A. Křivková

• Geminids 2023 – Observations in southern Spain
  B. Gährken

• High-Speed lenses in Astronomy – reloaded IMC 2024
  P. C. Slansky

• A preliminary study on the characteristics of meteor magnitude cumulative distributions
  Chih-Ming Lin, I-Ching Yang