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

[Jeff Allen <jeffstak@yahoo.com>]

Bert,

1. To me the Perseids were rather light. I was at OSP
last week and seems like the pre-show was pretty good
and led one to believe that the peak was gonna be
great.
We saw most before midnite. My son counted about 75
from about 9:00 to 11:00 while glancing from time to
time in my 8" SCT at deepsky stuff. I don't think it
was much stronger than that after.

2. I remember seeing Galen Rowell give a presentation
in Helena, Mt. around '78,'79 . It was on
circum-navigating Denali on Epoke 900 x-c skiis. He
was the hero of many backcountry skiers of the time
and probably the single greatest reason that those
skiis became so popular for backcountry (pre-metal
edge era)skiing. I still have mine. A great guy and
will be missed.

Jeff Allen
 
--- Bert Katzung <katzung1@attbi.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Bert
> 
> Bert Katzung
> katzung1@attbi.com
> www.astronomy-images.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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