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Re: (meteorobs) NAMN Meteor Report: Nov 14/15 (HALWA)
Regarding sporadic "apparant" radiants:
These were determined in the field when counting, and of course from the
plots at other times. I hope the NAMN position is that it's additional
annotated information and should cause no problems. It's just to kind of
keep an eye out for stuff that might be hidden down in the grass. I'm not
suggesting there are minor showers there, just noting where activity is
coming from. Now if I looked and 20% of my sporadics for a night came from
one spot, I might be suspicious. The reason I note it is that here in the
cool NEast, I don't get to plot 80 meteors a night, so I kind of need to
provide a way to track things over more than one night, so that I can then
go back, look at my plots and speed and see if indeed there is anything
there. It will also come in handy next year when we traverse this same
section of solar longitude. If it does bother any of the "bean counters" I
will remove it to my personal copy. Comments Mark, Bob, Rainer?
Wayne
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From: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latradedot com>, on 11/27/96 7:36 AM:
To: "Meteor Observing Mailing List" <meteorobs@latradedot com>
Nice idea with the apparent radiant, Wayne! Were these mostly determined in
the
field or at the desk with your plots afterward? Seems like it COULD be a
really
useful thing to note while counting major showers too! As we talked about
previously, a good deal of information on low-rate showers is probably lost
during the Majors, just because so few people are plotting (although many
are
photographing). What's the official NAMN/IMO view on noting "SRad"?
Clear skies (as it snows here in Olde Molde New England),
Lew