(meteorobs) More on video Orionids from Colorado

Marco Langbroek marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl
Wed Oct 26 12:18:15 EDT 2011


Op 26-10-2011 17:03, Chris Peterson schreef:
> Thanks. I agree that my video results and the video flux data you link
> are in agreement. Interesting that they differ from the visual reports
> (which are plotted on the IMO homepage). I'm guessing that once the
> predicted peak had passed, the visual observations simply slowed down
> (there don't seem to have been many to begin with). One more argument
> for the never sleeping camera!

Another explanation could be a changing r-value over the profile (a shift from 
fainter meteors pre-peak to brighter meteors post-peak).

- Marco

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