(meteorobs) Telescopic meteors

[Ed Majden]

    I suggest you try and find a copy of Amateur Telescope Making Advanced (Book Two) published by Scientific American.  My copy is dated 1954.  There is a chapter on RFT telescopes and telescopic meteor observations were discussed on page 644 in my issue.  Back then Professor, C.C.  Wylie, President of the Mid West Meteor Society suggested such a program using RFT , binoculars and other wide field telescopes for this.  He stated that the best place to look for such faint meteors is near the radiant where meteors are closer together.  Away from radiants you will see much fewer meteors.  When a member of the Regina Astronomical Society back in the 1950's we tried this with limited success.  Only a few faint meteors were seen as the field of view was relatively small and we consentrated mostly on un-aided visual meteor observations reporting our results to the late Peter M. Millman and his group at the Dominion Observatory and later at NRCC in Ottawa.  I don't know if anyone is still doing this today.  You could check with the American Meteor Society or the Meteor Section of the British Astronomical Association.
Ed Majden

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: pzeller1966 
  To: Ed Majden 
  Cc: Meteor science and meteor observing 
  Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:22 PM
  Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Telescopic meteors


  I've been doing that, thanks. I was just wondering if anyone on the list had experience with it. 

  On Nov 23, 2013 11:08 PM, "Ed Majden" <epmajden at shaw.ca> wrote:

    I suggest you do a search with "google" for "Telescopic Meteor Observations".  There are a number of notes on this.
    Ed Majden
    Courtenay, B.C. Canada
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: pzeller1966 
      To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org 
      Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:44 PM
      Subject: (meteorobs) Telescopic meteors


      I was wondering if anyone on this list does a regular program of observing meteors with binoculars or an RFT. I've been reading through some of the information online about it and it sounds very interesting. I own several pairs of binoculars and a 10" f/4 scope. My favorite binocs are 16x50 but from what I've read these might not have the best magnification to aperture ratio for doing this kind of research.

      Paul Zeller
      SE Indianapolis, IN, USA



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