Development of a Software Package for the Reduction and Analysis of Video Records of Meteors A thesis submitted for the degree of Do ctor of Philosophy by Prakash Atreya, B.Sc. Armagh Observatory Armagh, Northern Ireland & Faculty of Science and Agriculture Department of Pure and Applied Physics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland June 2009 Acknowledgements I want to thank Ap ostolos Christou (Tolis of the PhD, for providing articulate and available seven days a week. I thank him pro