Re: Question re: number of Perseids

Lew Gramer (dedalus@latrade.com)
Thu, 29 Aug 96 18:21:16 -0400

Hi, folks. I'll try to post a summary of analyses from world-wide observations 
of the Perseids this year, whenever they come out from IMO... 1997? :)

>My video setup uses an F/2 lens of 5" focal length, so the field of view is 
>only 8 degrees, but it records down to magnitude 9.  So it goes to 4 magnitudes
>fainter than you could see; but it has only a very small fraction of the total
>field of view visible to the naked eye.

I was wondering, R. B., if you had found a lower limit to the meteor magnitudes 
your video setup picked up? I've always been curious how video and/or film 
and/or digital imaging compared to the human eye in terms of sampling fast 
moving faint objects (i.e., meteors :>)?

Clear skies,
Lew