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Re[2]: (meteorobs) Perseids in Japan : Preliminary results



Dear Steve,

I think that you are misunderstanding about this table.  These data base
on individual counting observations, not to be counted by Group. "#Obs",
"T.eff" and "#Per" shows simple total number of individual counting
observations.  But, ZHR(Per) is a value which averages after calculated
individual ZHR.
If you can not see this explanation, you should see the calculated formula
and more detail data as following URL.

  http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~nms/tb99per.html


Clear skies.  Takema,



On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:07:35 +0100
Steve Harrison <ko0u@os.com> wrote:

> At 08:47 PM 1999-08-14 +0900, you wrote:
> >Perseids 1999
> >Visual results in Japan (The Nippon Meteor Society).
> [snip]
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Time[UT]  #Obs  T.eff   #Per ZHR(Per) SD   Err.   Remarks
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >Aug.12, 1999
> >12:30       1   0.50      2   103      -    73
> >13:30       3   2.42     16    55     20    14
> >14:30       3   1.83     34   125     70    21
> >15:30       2   1.50     40    61     14    10
> >16:30       3   2.00     74    90     20    10
> >17:30      10   8.97    518   113     34     5
> >18:20       9   7.48    528   159     48     7
> 
> Is this to say that 518 total Perseids were counted by 10 observers, and
> 528 by 9 observers, during the two hours mentioned above?? I thought that
> combining meteor counts in this manner was considered invalid since the
> perception of each observer is different? Are the counts above somehow
> normallized to some Lm, and if so, what method was used?
> 
> For some reason, I'm starting to feel like GeoZay this morning...
> 
> SteveH
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