RE: [APML] Meteors? Galen Rowell ---

["ice" <ice@neosoft.com>]

It was probably an Iridium flare.  Check this site out

http://www.satobs.org/satintro.html

Len


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From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org] On
Behalf Of Lewis V. Bishop
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:42 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: RE: [APML] Meteors? Galen Rowell ---


Well i too was a little unimpressed with the show. I did see 10-15 in
total between 10.30pm and 1am but i KNOW i missed a big one because i
came out of the house and there was this huge perfectly straight trail
of some sort. I had 2 cameras going hoping to capture something, but
with the London skies and my inexperience all i can do is wish (upon a
star - ho ho ho) - i don't think i got anything. It was so clear last
night it was a shame - tonight (at the moment) it is cloudy...

I did see a funny thing yesterday though. Looking from my back garden
(just outside london) i saw what looked like a moving star (a tiny white
moving pinprick - i understand these are satellites). What was
particularly interesting about this one was that just as it was moving
under Cassiopeia it flared brilliant white for perhaps 1 - 2 seconds...
and i mean REALLY flared - it was like watching a firework... i don't
know if it continued on it's way or not - i was just too amazed at what
i saw. Anyone else see it or know what it was?

Lewis.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas W. Earle [mailto:twade@bmi.net]
Sent: 13 August 2002 21:14
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: Re: [APML] Meteors? Galen Rowell ---


> Two topics:
> 1. Did anybody see a reasonable show of Perseids? I had very foggy 
> conditions at two different sites (Sunday and Monday nights) and saw 
> only
a
> few. I shot some film but I'm not optimistic.

I saw quite a few Perseids.  One was really awesome.  It feel just to
the right of Polaris, and probably was by far the brightest of the night
with a very long trail.  However, it came from the south which is
strange.  I'm uncertain of its origin.  Was it really a Perseid.  I was
under the impression that the Perseids emminate from a particular
radiant.  Can you get Perseids from the south when the radiant is in the
northeast?  The meteor moved from south to north.  I saw several other
impressive fireballs too.  Most were in the southeast.  Hopefully, I
captured a few.  I'm sure I missed quite a few visual meteors since I
was manually guiding the telescope.  I used my Pentax 67 a 75 and 105 mm
lenses.

I'm not sure how I would rank this years Perseids, but I wasn't too
impressed.  I was under very dark skies too.  I guess I've been spoiled
by last years Leonids.  Why can't all meteor showers be that good?
Despite its showing, the fireballs were worth staying up all night.
Unfortunately, most of the good meteors occurred where the camera wasn't
pointing.  Such is the life of an astrophotographer.

>
> 2. Galen Rowell was not an astro-imager but was famous for his superb
nature
> photography National Geographic, several books)  and is one of my 
> idols. This morning's newspaper reported the death of both Galen and 
> his wife Barbara Rowell, as well as the pilot and another pasenger of 
> the chartered plane in the Sierra. Cause unknown at this time.

That's some very sad news.  He was an exclellent landscape photographer.

.....Wade...



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