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Re: (meteorobs) October 09/10 Observation
From a new salt....To insure that I don't influence my plotz, I make it a
practice not to know precisely where the radiants are when I'm plotting
Therefore I'm never really quite sure which showers I might be looking at.
Oh I have a rough idea, so that I pick a discriminating field of view
(separating close radiants) and am in the ballpark on active showers, but
until I get home tonight and finish Fridays and Monday's analysis, I don't
even know where the Taurids radiants are right now. Pretty sure they're not
in Taurus yet (Mondays po's were 36d +19, and 33d +10), but I don't have my
sky atlas here. Anyhow, I too have a light pollution direction, and trees
to contend with, so viewing fields are limited. That's what I do.
Wayne
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From: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latradedot com>, on 10/17/96 3:55 PM:
To: "Meteor Observing Mailing List" <meteorobs@latradedot com>
Thanks for the reply, Mark! It seems like there's constantly something to
learn
on this list! So is it general practice once a radiant moves beyond a
certain
distance from the center of your field of view, to stop distinguishing
members
from that shower? Do you other old salts generally do this, too?
Thanks, and clear skies,
Lew
PS: I think the "clods" came from someone else's email originally, BTW! :)
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