(meteorobs) Deficit of southern meteor streams apparently confirmed

[Jay Salsburg]

Hello Dan
Here is an example of the source of my anger...
I went to IMONet, entered "camera" in the search field. The first search
went to "Camera and Lens for Photography of Faint Meteors" (using film). The
Page referred in sequence to.
Camera and Lens for Photography of Faint Meteors
Choosing a Suitable Film for Meteor Photography
Photographic Fireball Patrol

These articles should be archived under "OBSOLETE" so they do not rise to
the top of searches for technology to record Meteor activity.

These topics are decades old, with non-scientific approaches to
instrumentation. It is an obsolete concept to record Meteor activity with
film and eyeballs. This is my point. While the IMO is a respectable
organization, it needs to join the rest of us in the 21st Century. Perhaps a
Futurist would be a better choice of leadership than a Film Photographer.

My point is; even though there may someone using 21st Century technology to
record Meteor activity, there needs to be a concerted effort by those in
leadership of Observation Organizations pushing for current and advanced
technology to record Meteors, and stop promotion of DATA recorded with
obsolete technology and amateurish pencil and paper observation recording
from lawn chairs.

Pardon my dust.


-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
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dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 2:09 PM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Deficit of southern meteor streams apparently
confirmed

Hi Jay,

I just don't understand what you are missing - the IMONet video database
alone is so rich now that paper after paper comes out of it. The only
problem may be the unequal distribution of cameras on the globe which may
lead to poor coverage of extremely sharp outbursts - but activity peaks
lasting days cannot be missed anymore and radiants can be determined
reliably. Thus the significance of the southern deficit.

Dan

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