(meteorobs) Video versus visual: my poster for the IMC

[Marco Langbroek]

Hi Daniel,

A very interesting - and very important- study.

Two things that are perhaps obvious to remark (and indeed you do) are:

  - how to account for the limiting magnitude/sky brightness variation
    (the V-shape might be simply related to sun altitude below the horizon);

  - variations with distance to radiant (indeed, you already mention this),
    as imaging probability is also a function of angular speed.

Two perhaps less obvious, but I think valid ones to ponder:

  - did you take into account the potential influence of the standard deviations
    of your video ZHR data (and visual ZHR) on the ratio plot results?
    (sigma = ZHR/sqrt(n)). As it are two datasets with not to be ignored standard
    devations you compare, the effect is cumulative.

  - variations in r-value might be a big problem. The camera is bound to be less
    sensitive for fainter meteors. Which means that for fainter r-values, the
    ratio visual-video ZHR wil be different than for brighter r-values, as the
    latter has  a more complete coverage. That is a problem when comparing
    different streams, but also when the r-value fluctuates over the night for
    one and the same stream.

Hope these comments are useful to you. These studies imho are very worthwhile.

- Marco

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Daniel Fischer wrote:
> At http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mintron/perseids.html the poster I've
> just prepared for the IMC in Belgium is open for discussion - input even from
> non-attendees of the conference (how dare you :-) could be worked into the
> version that goes into the printed proceedings.
> 
> Daniel
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