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Re: (meteorobs) The ongoing importance of visual observing (was Re: LINEARID meteor shower in July?)
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Lew Gramer wrote:
> What is more, there is still
> room for improvement in video system resolution, and so telescopic
> meteor plotting may also continue to add value for many years yet.
In the long term, video observations will clearly take on a more major role,
but I should add that my present setup gives a directional accuracy of
much better than 1 degree for most meteors, and the angular velocity is
known with high accuracy. Once routine nightly two-station observations
begin, the video observations will go into another dimension yet again.
I should add that I am a neophyte to regular observations. The AKM, DMS and
Japanese have been producing results for many years. However I have made
video observations of meteors off and on since 1983.
Cheers, Rob
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