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

["Lewis V. Bishop" <lewis.bishop@red7consulting.co.uk>]

Thanks all, pretty sure it was an Iridium flare now - this page (http://www.chapman.edu/oca/fa_iridium.html) has an animation and it's identical to what i saw. 

Was out again last night but saw very few of the perseids, although saying that i'm hopeful that i picked something up on film - dependant on whether my film, exposure, f settings etc are correct... 

Thanks,

Lewis.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Bert Katzung [mailto:katzung1@attbi.com]
Sent:	Tue 8/13/2002 11:33 PM
To:	astro-photo@seds.org
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Subject:	Re: [APML] Meteors? Galen Rowell ---

Hi Lewis:
Slow-moving things that act like satellites but flare brilliantly for a few
seconds are usually Iridium satellite flares. I used to have a URL that
predicted exactly when you might see one based on your lat & long, but I
have misplaced it. You can probably find it via Google or someone here can
toss it in.
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis V. Bishop" <lewis.bishop@red7consulting.co.uk>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:41 PM
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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