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Re: (meteorobs) Plotting During the Perseids
At 05:19 PM 8/22/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Let me be controversial.
On the contrary, Malcolm, I'd say your points are pretty undeniable!
I was tempted myself to do some telescopic charts during the night
before PER max - after all, the sky was so bad I really didn't feel
I would miss much visually. Unfortunately, inexperience dissuaded me.
One thing that I believe would be helpful in encouraging observers
to try telescopic observations during major shower maxima, would be
for those who data analyses to advertise that a particular major
shower was in NEED of them; e.g., the subradiants of the Perseids.
>In the longer term, wide-field video observations appear to offer a
>solution. You'd want to have a similar mean meteor magnitude as the
>visual observer.
This last made me curious: what would be the advantage of having a
similar "mean meteor magnitude" (meaning limiting magnitude?) between
the wide-field video and one or more visual observers doing counts?
Clear skies to all!
Lew
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