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Re: (meteorobs) plot describe count
In a message dated 96-07-22 10:14:51 EDT, you write:
<< whats the big confusion people
a "count" is when you keep track of meteors ( by fingers or some other
method)
and at the end of the watch you have a total and no othter data along
with it except maybe from which shower it came from if any
jim houser
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Jim,
when I first started meteor observing, the first thing I did was read the
book from IMO about how to do it. When I read about the "Counting" method, I
thoroughly understood right then what it meant...never question it....figured
anything less than the required info was not meteor observing for scientific
purposes and accepted it as that. I had no intentions of doing what was less
than acceptable...so "Counting" means to me to include Time, Magnitude, speed
and shower association. Since then I included Persistent train durations.
George Z.