Perseid 2004 science

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RJN
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Perseid 2004 science

Post by RJN » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:13 am

There is some good science that can be done with the NSL camera images of 2004 Perseids. A motivated person can go through the NSL images from MK and CI (the two most productive cameras, for example) and find all the Perseids. We know many exist because many were found (non-scientifically) here.

One would need clear reproducable detection criteria. Even a simple count of the Perseids per hour would be possibly the most scientific and reproducable rate of bright Perseids over the sky. This rate could then be compared with models and other observations.

One could also reconstruct a "luminosity function" of Perseid brightnesses at the bright end. I think all of these results could form the basis for a pubishable paper.

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