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Mar 20, 2012 Meteoroid is a listed QuickTime movie player. It will also play audio-only files (MP3, AAC, etc). Multiple windows can be shown. Other features: Toggle the playlist drawer by pushing button or keyboard shortcut easily. The official channel for Meteor Productions. We produce video in Sussex and beyond for all kinds of customers, whether business or creative - we tell your story in a whole new way.
On this page you will learn how you can deploy your app to a server that is running Passenger. You can either follow these instructions with your own app, or you can use the sample Meteor app we prepared.
1 Transferring the Meteor package to the server
1.1 Build package
To deploy your Meteor app to production, we need to create a packaged version of it. A packaged Meteor app contains the Meteor runtime and various other necessary things for running a Meteor app in production.
In order to provide you appropriate instructions, please choose your Meteor version:
Inside your application's code directory, on your local computer, use the meteor bundlemeteor build command to create a Meteor package tarball.
Why create a package?
Wondering why we instruct you to create a package, instead of just using the Meteor app in unpackaged form? Learn more at About Meteor support.
'meteor bundle' deprecated?
Meteor will probably tell you that meteor bundle is deprecated in favor of meteor build. Please ignore that message, because for the purpose of running a Meteor web application on Passenger, only meteor bundle does what we want.
meteor bundle creates a packaged web application, in the form of a Node.js web app with the Meteor runtime included. meteor build is a more comprehensive tool that not only does what meteor bundle does, but also builds iOS and Android app packages. However, Passenger is a web application server, so iOS and Android packages are not relevant to us, which is why we recommend using meteor bundle instead of meteor build.
1.2 Upload package to the server
Copy the package to your production server, for example using scp:
Replace adminuser with the name of an account with administrator privileges or sudo privileges.
1.3 Login to your server, create a user for the app
Login to your server with SSH:
Replace adminuser with the name of an account with administrator privileges or sudo privileges.
Now that you have logged in, you should create an operating system user account for your app. For security reasons, it is a good idea to run each app under its own user account, in order to limit the damage that security vulnerabilities in the app can do. Passenger will automatically run your app under this user account as part of its user account sandboxing feature.
You should give the user account the same name as your app. But for demonstration purposes, this tutorial names the user account myappuser.
We also ensure that that user has your SSH key installed:
1.4 Extract package
You need extract the package to a permanent location on the server. A good location is /var/www/APP_NAME. Let us create that directory.
Replace myapp and myappuser with your app's name and your app user account's name.
Now let us extract the package:
Your extract app package directory now lives on the server at /var/www/myapp/bundle.
2 Preparing the app's environment
2.1 Install MongoDB
During development, the Meteor runtime takes care of starting MongoDB for you. MongoDB is the database engine that Meteor uses. But a packaged Meteor app does not start MongoDB for you. Instead, a packaged Meteor app expects that MongoDB is already running somewhere, and that you tell the app where that MongoDB instance is.
2.2 Login as the app's user
All subsequent instructions must be run under the application's user account. While logged into your server, login under the application's user account as follows:
2.3 Install app dependencies
Your application has various dependencies.They must be installed. Most of these dependencies are Javascript libraries, managed by npm. You can install them by running npm install in your app's package directory, under the programs/server subdirectory:
Your app may also depend on services, such as Redis etc. With the exception of MongoDB, installing services that your app depends on is outside of this tutorial's scope.
3 Configuring Apache and Passenger
Now that you are done with transferring your app's code to the server and setting up an environment for your app, it is time to configure Apache so that Passenger knows how to serve your app.
3.1 Go back to the admin account
You have previously logged into your app's user account in order to prepare the app's environment. That user does not have sudo access. In the next steps, you need to edit configuration files, for which sudo access is needed. So you need to switch back to the admin account.
This can be done by simply exiting the shell that was logged into the app's user account. You will then be dropped back to the admin account. For example:
3.2 Edit Apache configuration file
We need to edit your Apache configuration file and setup a virtual host entry that points to your app. This virtual host entry tells Apache (and Passenger) where your app is located.
Open your Apache configuration file. For example:
Don't know where your Apache configuration file is? Read Working with the Apache configuration file.
Let us add a virtual host entry at the end of that file. At the end of the file, insert:
Replace yourserver.com with your server's host name and replace /var/www/myapp/bundle with your application's package directory path. Replace myappdb with an appropriate MongoDB database name. Also be sure to set ROOT_URL to an appropriate value.
When you are done, restart Apache:
(Depending on your operating system, the right command may be apache2ctl instead of apachectl.)
3.3 Test drive
You should now be able to access your app through the server's host name! Try running this from your local computer. Replace yourserver.com with your server's hostname, exactly as it appears in the Apache config file's ServerName directive.
If you do not see your app's front page HTML, then these are the most likely causes:
- You did not correctly configure your
ServerNamedirective. The ServerName must exactly match the host name in the URL. For example, if you use the commandcurl http://45.55.91.235/to access your app, then the ServerName must be45.55.91.235. - You did not setup DNS records. Setting up DNS is outside the scope of this tutorial. In the mean time, we recommend that you use your server's IP address as the server name.
Next step
Congratulations, you have successfully deployed your app!
Continue: Deploying updates »Various software packages are available related to meteors and meteor data processing.
Radiant
The Radiant software calculates density distributions of meteor radiants. The disk-read procedures interpret meteor co-ordinate data in the PosDat and FIDAC formats. The user should have some basic knowledge of creating dBase files. The density distributions are gnomonically projected, thus simplifying the calculating procedures. For most radiant searches the investigated area is small enough (<20° across) that the scale change over this gnomonic chart can be neglected.
Radiant knows three methods of radiant determinations: backward tracings, intersection counts and probability distributions.
Radiant is a product which developed by its users. I would like to specially thank Malcolm J. Currie for his numerous suggestions, Andre Knofel for testing the current version and setting up the FIDAC file structure, Ralf Koschack for mathematical ideas and the analysis of plotting and velocity errors, Luis R. Bellot for modifying the angular speed formula, Detlef Koschny for setting up the PosDat file structure and many more.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 users only: Radiant is a 16-bit DOS program and as such you will not be able to run it even from the command prompt, you would get an error message: 'This system does not support fullscreen mode. Choose ‘Close' to terminate the application.' Changing compatibility settings in the properties window of the RAD14.exe file won't help you either. There is still a simple and comfortable solution for this problem by installing the DOSBox program, which emulates DOS and thus lets you run 16-bit DOS programs. DOSBox is a freeware and can be downloaded from its official website; its installation process is quite simple and doesn't require any further explanation here. Note: You will NOT need DOSBox for running the Project Editor, you can run it directly from the Windows Explorer.
Download Radiant v1.45 (author Rainer Arlt)
MetRec
MetRec (Meteor Recognizer) is a software package for the automatic detection and analysis of video meteors. It can be used both to inspect video tapes/DVD offline, and to do online recognition for an automated video system.
MetRec analyses in real-time half resolution grey scale PAL (384×288 pixel, 8 bit) or NTSC (320×240 pixel, 8 bit) video frames at rates up to 25/30 frames per second. It stores the appearance time of meteors and optionally a number of frames and a sum image from each event. MetRec is able to compute the meteor brightness, its velocity and equatorial coordinates. The software calculates the limiting magnitude and the size of the field of view covered by the camera. It is able to determine the meteor shower on the fly, and the flux density for each meteor shower.
The software is highly flexible – it can be adapted to each individual system with a number of parameters to be set in a configuration file. All output is written into a logfile. During recognition, the current input signal, preliminary results of the recognition process (e.g. mean subtracted image, regions of interest, segmented and identified stars, …) and the system state are displayed at the monitor.
MetRec runs only on 32 bit OS or lower (DOS, Win98, Win XP, Win 7). Check the MetRec homepage for more information and downloads. MetRec can be downloaded from this site. You have to choice to download the individual program files for DOS, Win XP, and Win7 or ZIP archives MetRec53Dos.zip (16.1 MB) / MetRec53WinXP.zip (8.2 MB) / MetRec53Win7.zip (192 MB) which include the full software package in compressed format. The history file informs you about the latest software changes.
QRicht
QRicht provides you with all required information to aim your cameras for double-station observations based on the observation time, the geographic coordinates of 2, 3 or 4 stations, the height in the atmosphere of the aiming point and the geographic coordinates of the aiming point in the atmosphere.
QRicht runs on 16 bit machines. If you are interested in a 32 bit version, please contact Marc de Lignie.
Download:
- QRicht 16Bits (author Marc de Lignie)
- QRicht 32Bits (Windows & Mac) (compiled by Alex Georoceanu)
UFOCapture
UFOCapture is a motion capture software that starts recording on a hard disk drive of a computer from a few seconds before the action recognized to a few seconds after the action finished. UFOCapture is software for Microsoft Windows and it is easy to build a satisfying observation system by using various video capture equipments on the market.
After UFOCapture was first published in 2003, UFOCapture V2 is now available refined by users' requests and advices on summer of 2005. Fantastic luminous phenomena have been captured using UFOCapture such as meteors, Fireballs, Sprites, Elves, and Blue Jets, and much more unknown phenomena are waiting to be discovered.
UFOAnalyzer, which calculates precise direction and elevation of the event and UFOOrbit that gets an orbit by a fireball observed by more than two sites, are also available and very useful to precede the captured events.
VisDat
VISDAT is a system for recording and evaluating visual meteor observations. The first version was developed in 1991 by Thomas Rattei and later by Janko F. Richter (both Astroclub Radebeul e.V. Germany).
Download VisDat (author Janko F. Richter/T. Rattei)
AstroRecord
The Astro Record program is aimed at making position measurements of celestial objects, especially meteors, and performing the associate astrometric calculations. For this purpose screen coordinates of the object and of a number of reference stars can be measured, equatorial coordinates of the reference stars can be looked up, and the results of the astrometric calculations can be analyzed regarding wrong star identifications and plate defects.
The results are stored as an output file that can be used for either the Turner or Redsky astrometric computer programs in use within the Dutch Meteor Society. In addition, the equatorial coordinates (equinox J2000.0) of the meteor's begin and end point are stored in a log file that can easily be converted to the PosDat format used by the International Meteor Organization.
The program can handle images in the Windows Device Independent Bitmap Format (*.BMP), Kodak Photo CD format (*.PCD) or Video for Windows format (*.AVI). For obtaining the equatorial coordinates the program uses the Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Vol. 1, second edition,1991 (c), sold by The Sky Publishing Corporation. The entering of equatorial coordinates is eased by the possibility of specifying a constellation name and Flamsteed number. From the fourth star on the program predicts the most probable star from a list of possible stars, based upon the previous measurements.
For the astrometric calculations the equatorial coordinates are converted into so-called direction cosines and expressed as a polynomial function of the screen coordinates x and y (Turner's method). The user can choose between a first, second or third order fit. A third order fit can compensate for the most common image distortions due to camera and projection lenses, Photo CD production, optical scanning, image intensifiers, etc.
AstroRecord runs on 16 bit machines. If you are interested in a 32 bit version, please contact Marc de Lignie.
Download AstroRecord (author Marc de Lignie)
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MetShow
The MetShow meteor planetarium software is runningon Windows operating systems. The program can help meteor observers to prepare and evaluate their observations. MetShow is based on the 2017 IMO Working List of Meteor Showers (J. Rendtel, 2016), with addition of some meteor showers from the 2006 IMO Meteor Shower Calendar. The software produces the following information for the active showers on a given date:
- star charts with radiants
- moon phase
- moonrise and moonset
- sunrise and sunset
- solar longitude (J2000)
- other astronomical circumstances
- ZHR calculation
- Lunar impact conditions
Suggestions for improvements or new features can be sent to Peter Zimnikoval.
Download MetShow (author Peter Zimnikoval)
Radio Meteor Software
Now let us extract the package:
Your extract app package directory now lives on the server at /var/www/myapp/bundle.
2 Preparing the app's environment
2.1 Install MongoDB
During development, the Meteor runtime takes care of starting MongoDB for you. MongoDB is the database engine that Meteor uses. But a packaged Meteor app does not start MongoDB for you. Instead, a packaged Meteor app expects that MongoDB is already running somewhere, and that you tell the app where that MongoDB instance is.
2.2 Login as the app's user
All subsequent instructions must be run under the application's user account. While logged into your server, login under the application's user account as follows:
2.3 Install app dependencies
Your application has various dependencies.They must be installed. Most of these dependencies are Javascript libraries, managed by npm. You can install them by running npm install in your app's package directory, under the programs/server subdirectory:
Your app may also depend on services, such as Redis etc. With the exception of MongoDB, installing services that your app depends on is outside of this tutorial's scope.
3 Configuring Apache and Passenger
Now that you are done with transferring your app's code to the server and setting up an environment for your app, it is time to configure Apache so that Passenger knows how to serve your app.
3.1 Go back to the admin account
You have previously logged into your app's user account in order to prepare the app's environment. That user does not have sudo access. In the next steps, you need to edit configuration files, for which sudo access is needed. So you need to switch back to the admin account.
This can be done by simply exiting the shell that was logged into the app's user account. You will then be dropped back to the admin account. For example:
3.2 Edit Apache configuration file
We need to edit your Apache configuration file and setup a virtual host entry that points to your app. This virtual host entry tells Apache (and Passenger) where your app is located.
Open your Apache configuration file. For example:
Don't know where your Apache configuration file is? Read Working with the Apache configuration file.
Let us add a virtual host entry at the end of that file. At the end of the file, insert:
Replace yourserver.com with your server's host name and replace /var/www/myapp/bundle with your application's package directory path. Replace myappdb with an appropriate MongoDB database name. Also be sure to set ROOT_URL to an appropriate value.
When you are done, restart Apache:
(Depending on your operating system, the right command may be apache2ctl instead of apachectl.)
3.3 Test drive
You should now be able to access your app through the server's host name! Try running this from your local computer. Replace yourserver.com with your server's hostname, exactly as it appears in the Apache config file's ServerName directive.
If you do not see your app's front page HTML, then these are the most likely causes:
- You did not correctly configure your
ServerNamedirective. The ServerName must exactly match the host name in the URL. For example, if you use the commandcurl http://45.55.91.235/to access your app, then the ServerName must be45.55.91.235. - You did not setup DNS records. Setting up DNS is outside the scope of this tutorial. In the mean time, we recommend that you use your server's IP address as the server name.
Next step
Congratulations, you have successfully deployed your app!
Continue: Deploying updates »Various software packages are available related to meteors and meteor data processing.
Radiant
The Radiant software calculates density distributions of meteor radiants. The disk-read procedures interpret meteor co-ordinate data in the PosDat and FIDAC formats. The user should have some basic knowledge of creating dBase files. The density distributions are gnomonically projected, thus simplifying the calculating procedures. For most radiant searches the investigated area is small enough (<20° across) that the scale change over this gnomonic chart can be neglected.
Radiant knows three methods of radiant determinations: backward tracings, intersection counts and probability distributions.
Radiant is a product which developed by its users. I would like to specially thank Malcolm J. Currie for his numerous suggestions, Andre Knofel for testing the current version and setting up the FIDAC file structure, Ralf Koschack for mathematical ideas and the analysis of plotting and velocity errors, Luis R. Bellot for modifying the angular speed formula, Detlef Koschny for setting up the PosDat file structure and many more.
For Windows Vista and Windows 7 users only: Radiant is a 16-bit DOS program and as such you will not be able to run it even from the command prompt, you would get an error message: 'This system does not support fullscreen mode. Choose ‘Close' to terminate the application.' Changing compatibility settings in the properties window of the RAD14.exe file won't help you either. There is still a simple and comfortable solution for this problem by installing the DOSBox program, which emulates DOS and thus lets you run 16-bit DOS programs. DOSBox is a freeware and can be downloaded from its official website; its installation process is quite simple and doesn't require any further explanation here. Note: You will NOT need DOSBox for running the Project Editor, you can run it directly from the Windows Explorer.
Download Radiant v1.45 (author Rainer Arlt)
MetRec
MetRec (Meteor Recognizer) is a software package for the automatic detection and analysis of video meteors. It can be used both to inspect video tapes/DVD offline, and to do online recognition for an automated video system.
MetRec analyses in real-time half resolution grey scale PAL (384×288 pixel, 8 bit) or NTSC (320×240 pixel, 8 bit) video frames at rates up to 25/30 frames per second. It stores the appearance time of meteors and optionally a number of frames and a sum image from each event. MetRec is able to compute the meteor brightness, its velocity and equatorial coordinates. The software calculates the limiting magnitude and the size of the field of view covered by the camera. It is able to determine the meteor shower on the fly, and the flux density for each meteor shower.
The software is highly flexible – it can be adapted to each individual system with a number of parameters to be set in a configuration file. All output is written into a logfile. During recognition, the current input signal, preliminary results of the recognition process (e.g. mean subtracted image, regions of interest, segmented and identified stars, …) and the system state are displayed at the monitor.
MetRec runs only on 32 bit OS or lower (DOS, Win98, Win XP, Win 7). Check the MetRec homepage for more information and downloads. MetRec can be downloaded from this site. You have to choice to download the individual program files for DOS, Win XP, and Win7 or ZIP archives MetRec53Dos.zip (16.1 MB) / MetRec53WinXP.zip (8.2 MB) / MetRec53Win7.zip (192 MB) which include the full software package in compressed format. The history file informs you about the latest software changes.
QRicht
QRicht provides you with all required information to aim your cameras for double-station observations based on the observation time, the geographic coordinates of 2, 3 or 4 stations, the height in the atmosphere of the aiming point and the geographic coordinates of the aiming point in the atmosphere.
QRicht runs on 16 bit machines. If you are interested in a 32 bit version, please contact Marc de Lignie.
Download:
- QRicht 16Bits (author Marc de Lignie)
- QRicht 32Bits (Windows & Mac) (compiled by Alex Georoceanu)
UFOCapture
UFOCapture is a motion capture software that starts recording on a hard disk drive of a computer from a few seconds before the action recognized to a few seconds after the action finished. UFOCapture is software for Microsoft Windows and it is easy to build a satisfying observation system by using various video capture equipments on the market.
After UFOCapture was first published in 2003, UFOCapture V2 is now available refined by users' requests and advices on summer of 2005. Fantastic luminous phenomena have been captured using UFOCapture such as meteors, Fireballs, Sprites, Elves, and Blue Jets, and much more unknown phenomena are waiting to be discovered.
UFOAnalyzer, which calculates precise direction and elevation of the event and UFOOrbit that gets an orbit by a fireball observed by more than two sites, are also available and very useful to precede the captured events.
VisDat
VISDAT is a system for recording and evaluating visual meteor observations. The first version was developed in 1991 by Thomas Rattei and later by Janko F. Richter (both Astroclub Radebeul e.V. Germany).
Download VisDat (author Janko F. Richter/T. Rattei)
AstroRecord
The Astro Record program is aimed at making position measurements of celestial objects, especially meteors, and performing the associate astrometric calculations. For this purpose screen coordinates of the object and of a number of reference stars can be measured, equatorial coordinates of the reference stars can be looked up, and the results of the astrometric calculations can be analyzed regarding wrong star identifications and plate defects.
The results are stored as an output file that can be used for either the Turner or Redsky astrometric computer programs in use within the Dutch Meteor Society. In addition, the equatorial coordinates (equinox J2000.0) of the meteor's begin and end point are stored in a log file that can easily be converted to the PosDat format used by the International Meteor Organization.
The program can handle images in the Windows Device Independent Bitmap Format (*.BMP), Kodak Photo CD format (*.PCD) or Video for Windows format (*.AVI). For obtaining the equatorial coordinates the program uses the Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Vol. 1, second edition,1991 (c), sold by The Sky Publishing Corporation. The entering of equatorial coordinates is eased by the possibility of specifying a constellation name and Flamsteed number. From the fourth star on the program predicts the most probable star from a list of possible stars, based upon the previous measurements.
For the astrometric calculations the equatorial coordinates are converted into so-called direction cosines and expressed as a polynomial function of the screen coordinates x and y (Turner's method). The user can choose between a first, second or third order fit. A third order fit can compensate for the most common image distortions due to camera and projection lenses, Photo CD production, optical scanning, image intensifiers, etc.
AstroRecord runs on 16 bit machines. If you are interested in a 32 bit version, please contact Marc de Lignie.
Download AstroRecord (author Marc de Lignie)
Meteoroids (animerrill Productions) Mac Os 7
MetShow
The MetShow meteor planetarium software is runningon Windows operating systems. The program can help meteor observers to prepare and evaluate their observations. MetShow is based on the 2017 IMO Working List of Meteor Showers (J. Rendtel, 2016), with addition of some meteor showers from the 2006 IMO Meteor Shower Calendar. The software produces the following information for the active showers on a given date:
- star charts with radiants
- moon phase
- moonrise and moonset
- sunrise and sunset
- solar longitude (J2000)
- other astronomical circumstances
- ZHR calculation
- Lunar impact conditions
Suggestions for improvements or new features can be sent to Peter Zimnikoval.
Download MetShow (author Peter Zimnikoval)
Radio Meteor Software
Yagimax
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This program permits the calculation of the performance of Yagi antennas. It runs under MS-DOS.
Meteor Prediction
This is a program of radio amateurs for the prediction of meteor scatter. We don't know its reliability, and there is no documentation in the package. It runs under MS-DOS
Meteor v4.0 & Colorgramme
Software for meteor detection and visualisation of observations. Can be found at http://radio.meteor.free.fr/.
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EZNEC Antenna Software
EZNEC and EZNEC+ are powerful but very easy-to-use programs for modeling and analyzing nearly any kind of antenna in its actual operating environment. EZNEC plots azimuth and elevation patterns; tells you gain, feedpoint impedance, SWR, and current distribution; finds and reports beamwidth, 3-dB pattern points, f/b ratio, takeoff angle, sidelobe characteristics; and more. All information, including patterns, can be displayed on screen or printed on any Windows compatible printer. Can be found at http://www.eznec.com/.
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Miscellaneous Software
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- CooReader (author Marek Samujllo)
measuring visual meteor plots - MetSim (author Sirko Molau) is a meteor storm simulation. The goal of this simple program is to test how good you are in estimating the meteor count under exceptional rates, and to train yourself for such an event. Beside that, it is simply fun to watch the display of an artificial meteor storm. MetSim runs under 16 bit OS (Dos, Win98) only. However, the readme file contains instructions how MetSim runs easily with the DOS emulator DosBox on any Windows version.
- Between 2001 and 2004, Marco Langbroek wrote (sometimes with the help of Marc de Lignie and Casper ter Kuile) a number of MS Excel applications for various types of calculations relating to meteor astronomy. Most of it relates to meteor orbits. Among them is a spreadsheet which allows you to calculate orbital elements from a (geocentric) meteor radiant position and speed.
