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Re: (meteorobs) Leonid counting
Kim and others
Have you checked out the following IMO document-->
http://www.imodot net/news/leohints.html.... Definitely a must-read for
those planning on doing serious data collection during the upcoming
Leonid.
It gives very good guidelines on counting methods. "A tape recorder
or the somewhat awkward looking paper-roll technique have proven capable
of recording up to 500 meteors per hour.." then for EZHR 500-4000
(Strong Activity) this corresponds to "8 to 67 meteors per minute on
average. In other words: It will be between `sometimes' and
`always' that you are not able to report reasonable magnitudes of the
meteors anymore. " Finally, for storm level activity (EZHR>4000).. A
rate of one or two meteors per second on average should be recordable by
simple `beeps' which you speak onto the tape; higher rates will soon
become impossible to record because of the uneven temporal distribution
of meteors. You may switch to 10-meteor countings, that is, you `beep'
onto your tape when you have the impression that 10 meteors have
appeared."
Joseph
San Diego, CA
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