Why dont we ever see a meteor coming from below the horizon?
Who told you that? If you wait few hours until meteor shower radiant fall under horizon, you will see meteors coming from below horizon. They will look much weaker due to distance, path angle to the viewer and light pollution from the ground, so you need really intensive meteor shower to clearly see them, but even for weak shower they are still there. Use telescope for better results and check everything yourself.
No, they viewed as flying from ground to sky radially, from the center (radiant) that is below horizon. They looks dimmer because you see them from another angle and distance.
If shower is intense you have more bright meteors, and porbably you will be able to see some rising from below horizon after radiant is gone under the horizon. If shower is weak, you could use telescope to observe them.
Radiant is an imaginary point, it does not mean center or shower. It is just a point where meteors looks flying directly towards you. All meteors in shower really fly as a parallel stream. Usually meteor stream diameter is much larger than Earth. and they falls everywhere in the sky when Earth is inside that stream.
Also, to observe meteors flying from below horizon, you need meteor shower that have radiant point that could go below horizon at your location during nighttime. Try ones with low declination, i.e. radiant close to celestial equator.
Who told you that? If you wait few hours until meteor shower radiant fall under horizon, you will see meteors coming from below horizon. They will look much weaker due to distance, path angle to the viewer and light pollution from the ground, so you need really intensive meteor shower to clearly see them, but even for weak shower they are still there. Use telescope for better results and check everything yourself.
No, they viewed as flying from ground to sky radially, from the center (radiant) that is below horizon. They looks dimmer because you see them from another angle and distance.
If shower is intense you have more bright meteors, and porbably you will be able to see some rising from below horizon after radiant is gone under the horizon. If shower is weak, you could use telescope to observe them.
Radiant is an imaginary point, it does not mean center or shower. It is just a point where meteors looks flying directly towards you. All meteors in shower really fly as a parallel stream. Usually meteor stream diameter is much larger than Earth. and they falls everywhere in the sky when Earth is inside that stream.
Also, to observe meteors flying from below horizon, you need meteor shower that have radiant point that could go below horizon at your location during nighttime. Try ones with low declination, i.e. radiant close to celestial equator.
You mean something like that: https://youtu.be/xy7OHmICi_o?t=32 ?
Unfortunately, there was no any really intense meteor showers in the era of affordable good cameras.