Talk:List of meteor showers
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what does ZHR stand for? fojxl 23:16 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
- 'Zenithal Hourly rate', sort of a standard way to express the shower intensity (need an article of course). -- looxix 23:28 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
ahh, all becomes clear fojxl 23:48 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
- To make it still more clearer, it is an idealized frequency. A normal HR, hourly rate is simply the number of observed meteors per hour in a dark sky, where the observers are so many that every meteor from the radiant is observed and correctly identified. ZHR is the frequency that would have been if the radiant was in Zenith all the time, something that is physically impossible, but not too hard to compute, if valid HRs are measured. Rursus 19:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] table
I don't really like how this table is done codewise, there's too much html code and it's confusing, but I'm unfamilar with the wiki formatting for tables like this. (Phaldo)
- Nevermind, figured it out, and thanks to Python I was able to very easily convert it from HTML to wiki format :) Phaldo 14:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What year is this for?
Title pretty much says it. —Keenan Pepper 01:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- Seems to be recurring each year. Not sure though. I hate to register 00:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yes it's for every year, it's a mean value over the years, presuming that the shower is pretty constant. If it isn't, it should be marked as variable. Rursus 19:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Missing in the table
Important information missing in the table: whether the shower is a daylight or nighttime shower. Rursus 19:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Moon Phase
Adding info on Moon phase for different year may be helpful, IMO.
