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Re: (meteorobs) coeff.
Tom:
I would urge caution with very dim meteors. I may have posted
this last year. I have noticed some "meteors" which are some-
what diffuse and I always suspected that they were floaters.
There is another category of very fast, short dim (5, 6m) "meteors"
which I noticed, several per hour, all over the field.
I work at a planetarium and don't ask me what the hell I was
doing but one day after my eyes had been dark adapted I sat
down under a "dark sky", with the meteor projector turned off
tried a "meteor" count. It was successful!
I noticed both types of the above. The diffuse floaters I
confirmed when I noticed one seemed reddish, and that over
in that direction was the red lighted Exit sign. I turned that
and the stars off and didn't see any. I concluded that I was
seeing reflections of starlight or other light in floaters.
But, the second category of very dim, fast 5-6 mag images
can be seen by me with all lights off sitting in a completely
dark room. When I move my head quickly or stand up or
sit down, I can sometimes cause one of these.
I try to ignore these or meteors which are very dim, now.
Bob Young
State Museum of Pennsylvania Planetarium
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