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RE: (meteorobs) More on LM estimates and sources of error in ZHRs
Among other things, Lew Gramer wrote:
>Note by the way, Mike L., that some of these experiments were done on Mauna
>Kea,as well as West Texas and other dark places... Of course, as mentioned
>in the past, NONE of these were valid LM estimates from a meteor observer's
>point of view: they were attempts to map or describe all the very faintest
>stars in a given field, seen by ANY visual method at all.
Okay, but breathing pure Oxygen, and looking in a tube has nothing to do with
what the limit of what a full sky magnitude limit is. This is misleading. The
REAL limit is near 8th magnitude, which most people under most conditions will
seldom see.
GWG
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