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Re: (meteorobs) Visual magnitude
Rainer Arlt wrote:
> any change in lm for both under bright skies. The size of a meteor is small---
> does somebody know angular sizes of average say +3 meteors? On photographs faint
> meteors (fainter than say -2) look as wide as stars, so it can't be much more
> than a few arcminutes.
Not that I see many +3 meteors through my telescope but... even visual
meteors at 20x appear mostly as thin (sub-arcminute) lines, or star-like
if the angular speed is low.
Malcolm
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