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Re: (meteorobs) Re: meteorobs-digest V1 #500
<having novice observers plot during a Perseid maximum. As far as I can see,
<I agree with Joseph and the plotting efforts were intended as support for
<Peter's photographic effort. He simply needed the appearance time of each
<photographed meteor and in order to correlate a time with a meteor it is
<best when the meteor is plotted, even when done in a very rough way.
>Marc de Lignie
Dear Marc, Sirko, Bob, and others,
Thank you... and BTW, the intention of my original post was simply to
describe what I experienced, during the Persied peak, with a group of
observers headed by Dr Peter Jenniskens... and to say what an
awesome and fun time it was. However, unintentionally, it also started
this roundtable discussion on the pros and cons of having novice
observers plot meteors during the peak night of a major meteor shower.
Perhaps, when Peter returns from Japan, he can enlighten us as to the
rationale of his observational methodology.
Reagrds,
Joseph Assmus
San Diego, CA USA