Re: (meteorobs) December Meteor Hunting BLUNDER!

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) December Meteor Hunting BLUNDER!
• From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>
• Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:31:57 -1000 (HST)
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Mark Fox:
> In my recent posted meteor observations of December
> 7/8 and 10/11, I incorrectly described SOME of the
> directions of the meteors that I saw.  In the cases
> where I used "at the left edge of" or "on the right
> side of", etc. the opposite was true. 

It's better to give compass directions such as west or south-east, since
left and right depend on the orientation of the constellation from your
site at the given time.  For example left and right would be
interchanged for a Geminid observer in Australia.

Malcolm Currie

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• (meteorobs) December Meteor Hunting BLUNDER!
• From: Mark Fox <unclefireballmtf@yahoo.com>

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