This is a screenshot of Virgo on 2006-10-09
at 04:42 UTC.
Notice the big blue sky view with the meteor
radiants' tracks, each tick representing
an half of an hour of the radiant moving
through the visible part of the sky. The
position of each radiant is marked with a
big colored dot. The color refers to the
class of the meteor shower, regarding to
the count of meteors hitting the earth at
maximum (visual) activity. Look at the table
below to get an overview over the showers'
characteristics.
The compass card to the right is an azimuth
indicator to find the optimal qtf. You can
point your antenna perpendicular to the meteor
shower's direction to hit a maximum of meteor
trails (as displayed with the control set
to "Antenna") or at an angle to
the optimum direction.
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