(meteorobs) Re: AMS Meteor form

[Robert Lunsford]

Al and All,

There are two sets of forms available on the AMS website 
http://www.amsmeteors.org/visual.html#forms  Accuracy is listed on the basic 
form. On the advanced form Accuracy is replaced with DCV (Distance Central 
Vision). Whether a meteor is plotted or simply counted, the DCV can help us 
judge how well one saw it. DCV has come in and out of fashion with the 
times. I feel it is interesting to calculate your personal DCV for each 
magnitude and one will often find some interesting results. One surprising 
result for me was that for zero magnitude meteors my mean DCV was 50 
degrees. I never would have guessed that it was that large. Of course 
fainter meteors were seen much closer to the center of my field of view.

Clear Skies!

Robert Lunsford

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Degutis" <al.degutis at gmail.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:34 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) AMS Meteor form


I'm looking for a better explanation of "Accuracy" column of the AMS
basic Visual Meteor Observing Form. The form instructions define it
as:

Accuracy is how well a meteor was seen.

Can someone provide an example to two of how accurancy would be recorded?

Thanks
Al Degutis
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