Re: (meteorobs) Facing the Radiant or Not

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Facing the Radiant or Not
• From: Lew Gramer <dedalus>
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 12:39:50 -0400
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George Gliba asks:
>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?

I generally face about 40o away from the "biggest" radiant of the night, unless 
I have to face a certain direction to avoid clouds or light pollution. I just do 
what I'm told... ;>

But in terms of AESTHETICS, facing the radiant seems like a trade-off: more neat 
stationary and semi-stationary meteors; fewer long slow meteors and "tracers". 
This also depends on whether a radiant's in an interesting area of the sky!

Just my $0.02,
Lew

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