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Re: (meteorobs) Opik



Dear friends,

Rob :
>I'd tend to agree that
> for most observers counting would become unreliable at an observed rate of
> over 4,000/hr.  Clearly some observers will be more able to deal with high
> rates than others.

From my own experience based on 1999-2001 LEO campaigns, I have to say that
counting is not the real problem. Clear enough, I think it is easy to count
rate more than 1/sec meteor on a voicerecorder with some enthusiasm ;-).
Maybe 200 meteors per minute (that is about 3 per sec) for maybe 20 to 30
minutes is a limit. But the most difficult is to estimate magnitudes with
several meteor/sec. Last year, most LEO were coming up to - maybe - 4 to 8
simultaneously or within a few seconds making hard magnitude estimations ;
this was an hard task for me, despite the rate was *only* 40 to 50/minute.
Anyway, I'm a serious candidate to test counting under very hard storm level
conditions, says 100000 or 150000 meteor/hour ... Please let me know where
and when ;-)

Christophe


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