The Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) observes several
meteor showers each year. A more comprehensive study of
meteor showers is accomplished when observers world-wide
cooperate in the collection of meteor observations. The
observation method varies – visual, photographic, video,
radar, telescopic, etc – but each is useful to the meteor
community.
If you would like to get involved in meteor shower
observations, just for fun or in a more scientific sense, the
International Meteor Organization (IMO) has a wonderful
website created, as per their introduction page, “to
encourage, support and coordinate meteor observing, to improve
the quality of amateur observations, to disseminate
observations and results to other amateurs and professionals
and to make global analyses of observations received
world-wide.” See
http://www.imo.net/ for more
information.
