Bull. Astron. Inst. Czechosl. 41, 391-396 (1990)

The comparison of two methods of determining meteor trajectories from photographs

J. Borovicka
Astronomical Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 251 65 Ondrejov Observatory, Czechoslovakia

Abstract. Ceplecha (1987) has published a method of determining luminous meteor trajectories based on the computation of intersections of planes. In this paper another method, called the straight least-squares method, is described and both methods are compared. Numerical examples are presented and the properties of both methods are characterized, without explicitly preferring one to other.

Keywords: meteors: methods of reduction

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