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Re: (meteorobs) Indirect observing methods for 2001's Leonids ...
Christophe:
I understand. I have a video camera which I was going to use
with a hubcap all-sky mirror in case we get a storm of fireballs,
maybe I'll take some stil pixs of this mirror too. The site we
use is a helicopter pad on the top of a mountain in a state forest,
but the light dome of Harrisburg is in the south. It might be OK
for pictures taken before midnight. Testing early is a good idea.
Good luck.
Bob Young
In a message dated 8/20/2001 6:39:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ccmlt@wanadoo.fr writes:
<< since Tempel-Tuttle dusts are meeting Earth near november
18, we can consider for a few hours near the activity maximum, that there
are in fact in the ecliptic plane. If we keep in mind that this year density
will be specially high around Earth, maybe could this be detected as a very
faint but unusual glow from western horizon (zodiacal light) to the
anti-solar point.
Special location far from the cities, maybe in mountains, should be
considered for this purpose.
Trying it with photos should be successful, but another photo, maybe taken 2
day prior or after the event could help to compare and find something
different.
But I think we have to take care about "rapid" lenses : some vignetting
could occur ... So, the best to do is to take different exposure with a
little shift beetwen each exposure. Any volonteer ?
>>
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