Origin of limiting magnitude counting triangles and squares

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Aug 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jimo...38..115r&link_type=abstract

WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 115-117

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Meteor astronomers worldwide struggled for over a century with the problem of how to calibrate visual meteor counts. Although the effect of variable sky conditions was already recognized in the earliest studies of meteor counts, it took until the end of the 1940s before the limiting magnitude was commonly considered as the parameter to calibrate the sky conditions. The brilliant idea to use counting areas in the sky for limiting magnitude determination was proposed by Hugo van Woerden in the 1950s. This method is still used today and helped the IMO to fulfill the expectations of Hugo van Woerden many years after it was first published.

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