(meteorobs) Degrees

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Degrees
• From: Robert Gardner <rendrag@earthlinkdot net>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:43:13 -0800
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I am a little confused as to why meteor observers would use degrees to
express right ascension.  Every atlas or astronomical instrument I have
ever seen or used is graduated in hours and minutes and not degrees.  I
can see using degrees for solar longitude if you also specify an epoch.
Even there I don't always get what I expect, and I think it doesn't
always mean the same thing when applied to meteors.  If a table of
showers lists solar longitude  under the "Maximum" columns without
specifying epoch, does that mean that I can use the current epoch table
to determine the UT of the maximum?  I know what solar longitude in
degrees  means physically and why it would be used to specify the
location of nodes.  That doesn't bother me a bit.

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• (meteorobs) Re: Degrees
• From: Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa@home.com>
• Re: (meteorobs) Degrees
• From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoodot nl>

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