C/Linear (2000 Wm1) will be visible in the morning sky 6:30 a.m. on about Feb 23 from Edmonton at N 53.5° . I await it with some inmpatience. Larry Wood ... ...
Larry Wood
chukwood@...
Feb 1, 2002 10:36 am
22478
Glad to hear you were fortunate enough to witness one of the many "fire balls" (both natural and manmade) that occur each night over our heads: These do happen...
Lew Gramer
owner-meteorobs@...
Feb 1, 2002 10:31 pm
22479
I think the lucky guys got to see trash burning in the sky. I think this may be Iridium 27, that wasmentioned yesterday? re: [meteorite-list] OT: Iridium 27...
-----c-HArlie
charlies@...
Feb 1, 2002 11:06 pm
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... No, absolutely couldnt be. 9pm Central time jan 31 is 0300UT Feb 1. Iridium 27 decayed around 0530-0600UT Feb 1. Anyway the described motion isnt...
Tony Beresford
aberesford@...
Feb 1, 2002 11:46 pm
22481
Friends, our (small!) group of meteor observers is very interested to buy the PC164C camera for Meteor images getting. But we have (at least up to now) a big...
Roberto Haver
ME3540@...
Feb 2, 2002 11:44 am
22482
As usual, there will be an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) session about meteor observing on Monday evening, starting at 8pm EST, (which is 01:00 UT on Tuesday...
Lewis Gramer
dedalus@...
Feb 3, 2002 9:08 am
22483
Yes it is heading back up North but has already faded. I took pics of it a few months ago. http://members.aol.com/kcstarguy/blacksun/linearwm1.htm When it...
KCStarguy@...
Feb 3, 2002 4:28 pm
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Hola a todos, El Cometa Linear WM1 ha aumentado notablemente de brillo, en enero apenas era visible a simple vista con magnitud +6, en los primeros días de...
FAMA FAMA
famaastro@...
Feb 3, 2002 7:46 pm
22485
Am I the only one unhappy with the coverage of the 2001 Leonid storms in the new Sky & Telescope? Here is a letter I just sent them; as it exceeds their 300...
Daniel Fischer
dfischer@...
Feb 3, 2002 9:45 pm
22486
In a message dated 2/3/02 4:46:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, dfischer@... writes: << Thus both 2001 storms actually fell short of the strength of...
Skywayinc@...
Feb 3, 2002 10:08 pm
22487
Last night was our monthly star party on Oahu's north shore, and I took advantage of perfectly clear skies to do some evening meteorobs before the moon arose....
Michael Linnolt
mlinnolt@...
Feb 3, 2002 10:30 pm
22488
Comets Off topic Astrosaudações Cometárias! I like a lot to observe and to seek comets, as well as you observe the showers of meteors. But my sky continues...
Rosely Gregio
gregio@...
Feb 3, 2002 10:46 pm
22489
Meteoric greetings! I read that can have a shower of meteors. Somebody of you cannot or not to confirm Does it exist possibility there to be a meteor shower...
Rosely Gregio
gregio@...
Feb 4, 2002 12:59 am
22490
... From: Peiser Benny <B.J.Peiser@...> To: cambridge-conference <cambridge-conference@...> Subject: CCNet: CARBON AT THE K/T, EPH FLOPS & DEEP...
Lew Gramer
dedalus@...
Feb 4, 2002 6:31 pm
22491
The coverage was not what I expected.Nice pictures of which I thought the nicest was Espenak's wide angle and the smoke ring picture. But the coverage was on...
KCStarguy@...
Feb 4, 2002 9:25 pm
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... Rosely, do you mean, "Is it possible to see a meteor of magnitude -4 or -5, THROUGH (behind) the clouds..."? If you do, the answer is decidedly "yes"! ...
Lew Gramer
dedalus@...
Feb 4, 2002 9:58 pm
22493
In a message dated 2/4/02 4:26:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, KCStarguy@... writes: << The coverage was not what I expected.Nice pictures of which I thought...
KevTK@...
Feb 4, 2002 10:06 pm
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Dear Mister Lew Gramer! Very thankful for the beautiful explanations (as always:) Explaining better... there were just some rare holes in the sky, he was 99% ...
Rosely Gregio
gregio@...
Feb 5, 2002 3:27 am
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... Hi Daniel, ... I see this article not as the "final Leonid report" in Sky&Telescope. After all we have not even finished the visual analysis in IMO (Rainer...
via Lew Gramer
molau@...
Feb 5, 2002 6:48 pm
22496
TO PUT IT BLUNTLY COVERAGE IN SKY AND TELESCOPE OF LEONID METEOR STORM SUCKED!!!!!!! THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE A COMPLETE SPECIAL ISSUE. ... The archive and Web...
TCPFA
dstine@...
Feb 5, 2002 7:12 pm
22497
In a message dated 2/5/02 2:13:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, dstine@... writes: << TO PUT IT BLUNTLY ...<snip>...THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE A COMPLETE...
KevTK@...
Feb 5, 2002 8:05 pm
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... I disagree. Considering that Sky & Tel is a popular astronomy magazine for all levels of experence, it was a pretty well done article. Also, as Sirko...
Stop Light Pollution!
GLIBA@...
Feb 5, 2002 8:14 pm
22499
... I have to agree with Kevin that - in the CURRENT ATMOSPHERE - meteors are just not interesting to enough people among S&T's readership, to make it worth...
Lew Gramer
dedalus@...
Feb 5, 2002 8:24 pm
22500
Greetings all, Just noticed this message come through on the RASC email list... and thought it would be of interest to many of you on meteorobs! - Cathy Hall ...
C.L. Hall
chall@...
Feb 6, 2002 3:12 am
22501
... Simply not true: As I said in my letter - and as is evident from the first few links in the sidebar of the www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/mirror/230.html...
Daniel Fischer
dfischer@...
Feb 6, 2002 4:26 pm
22502
... But the American Meteor Society plot of the american Leonid Shower Outburst today shows a peak ZHR of 2500 near 11 UT on November 18, 2001! At the time the...
Stop Light Pollution!
GLIBA@...
Feb 6, 2002 5:08 pm
22503
... Most estimates of error rates in visual observations appear to be largely a formal statistic based on the number of meteors seen. I personally believe the...
Rob McNaught
rmn@...
Feb 6, 2002 5:42 pm
22504
... A **very** preliminary graph of the Leonid meteor shower activity curve as seen from Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, on Sunday, November 18, 2001: plotting the ...
Jim Richardson
jrich@...
Feb 6, 2002 6:03 pm
22505
... Take a look at the caption on that AMS graph. These results are based on five (5) observers, all at the same location. It is even noted as being "very...
Wesley Stone
wes_stone@...
Feb 6, 2002 6:10 pm
22506
In a message dated 2/6/02 11:26:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, dfischer@... writes: << By the way, if you really want to get angry at S&T, look...
