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Re: (meteorobs) report DMS meeting 25 April
Malcolm,
> > The meteors are equally distributed within the field of view. So you can
> > concentrate on one quarter of the screen and multiply your estimates by
> > four, if you think that helps.
>
> So are you advocating that visual observers wear blinkers? I'm not
> convinced that you can merely scale up, when distracted by a sky full of
> meteors. There has to be a correction for the finite length of
> meteors too. Your field of view is effectively larger.
it was just a suggestion how you might cope with storm-like rates.
I have not yet thought in detail about possible side effects from that.
> but you're not focussed at anything like infinity. Now this may not be
> a factor, but if you are trying to simulate 1966, you need to make it
> as close as possible so that people will have confidence in your
> conclusions.
You're perfectly right. This was the reason why I decided to improve the
simple meteor simulation of Hartwig Luethen at all!
> I look forward to reading more about your experiments.
... hopefully in the next issue of WGN.
BTW, last weekend I brought WGN 2/98 to Potsdam, so it should be in your
mail soon.
Sirko
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