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(meteorobs) Fwd Query: Science Fair Project
Hello! My name is Jonathan Williams, and I am an 8th grader at Raa
Middle School in Tallahasse, FL. I hesitantly call myself an amateur
astronomer, my dad and I have been observing with a TeleVue Ranger and a
oldie-but-goodie Celestron. The Science Fair is starting up and this year
I am contemplating a project roughly about "Finding Peaks of Meteor
Showers Using Radio, Visual, and Photographic Techniques" The Radio part
will be a crucial part of this project, but the others will be important
too. I would really appreciate it of you could give me some tips on how
to do this. If you can, or could give me a reference that could, I would
happy to list you at the top of my Aknowledgements/Bibliography page.
First, here are some facts about this project:
I live in Tallahasse Florida
I live in a neighborhood with moderate light pollution
I have access to the astro. club's site (pretty good one)
My dad has a Ranger and a 6 inch Celestron-f/5 on GP mount
I have a camera with 50mm-f/2 lens and 200mm-f/8 lens
The camera is an OLD Minolta with bulb setting
I plan to observe the Orionids, Leonids, Fall meteors.
I have a tripod for the camera.
I have a Shortwave/FM/AM radio with .5 meter antenna.
I have Boombox radio with .66 meter antenna.
I am planning forward-scatter techniques.
If you could get information to me by the above showers, that would
be very convenient. Thanks alot!!
-Jonathan