(meteorobs) Facing the Radiant or Not

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Facing the Radiant or Not
• From: Stop Light Pollution! <GLIBA@grossc.gsfc.nasadot gov>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 9:54:20 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-To: meteorobs@latradedot com
• Sender: owner-meteorobs

  The question of if you should face the radiant looking for members of a
meteor shower or not is controversial. I think it depends on the type of
vision and experiance of the observer. Some excellent observers like George
Zay will say to face 40 degrees away from the radiant. I face directly at
the radiant. Now, it may be that because I have wide field vision, this works
for me, or maybe it's experiance, I don't know. Any other opinions or thoughts
about this out there?

GWG

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