--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
While all of this was going on I had my observatory scope taking pictures of an asteroid I was following
for another project. At the end of the night as I was going through the images I found one that had the asteroid and a Perseid. Considering the field of view is just 18' x 26' I didn't really expect to capture any meteors.
It's more frequent than you might think during showers. Although I don't do this personally, the International Meteor Organization has a telescopic meteor observing page that notes, "Telescopic meteors are just meteors seen through a telescope or binocular. That is irrespective that some are sufficiently luminous to be visible to the unaided eye. Most are the result of micro-meteoroids with masses in the range 10-4 to 10-10kg. They are exceedingly numerous. They make up the bulk of the meteor particles entering Earth's atmosphere. For example, the hourly rate of +9m meteors is about 10000." http://www.imo.net/tele/tmintro.html http://www.imo.net/tele/tmrationale.html http://www.imo.net/tele/index.html - Canopus56(Kurt) ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs