Re: [APML] Meteor Storm

["Ken Adams" <sharken@bellsouth.net>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alson Wong" <alsonwong@earthlink.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Meteor Storm


We had similar weather in Landers, with around 200 people at our observing
site.  For most of the evening, we had variable clouds, and at around 1:00
clouds came in from the W and S, leaving only a sucker hole around Gemini.
During the next hour, though, the clouds receded, leaving the E, N, and S
clear for the rest of the night.  Activity seemed to peak around 3:00, with
maybe 20 per minute, qualifying as storm level.  I ended up shooting two
rolls of P1600 at f/2.8 x 5 minutes with 50mm and 20mm lenses.
--
Alson Wong
Riverside Astronomical Society
     http://www.rivastro.org/
Visit my Web page at:
     http://home.earthlink.net/~alsonwong/index.htm
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Tony Hallas
  To: astro-photo@seds.org
  Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 6:27 AM
  Subject: Re: [APML] Meteor Storm


  I don't know why, but until about 1:30 we were completely socked in with
clouds... then as if on cue, the clouds vanished and the meteor display took
off... best time was between 2:00 and 4:00 PST ... within five minutes of
each other two very bright meteors tore through Polaris at 3:15 more or
less... might have this on film since I was shooting circumpolar all night
with one of the cameras. Beautiful display with meteors arriving in
unison... there were times when it was at least a meteor every second.
Finally as dawn approached the clopuds came rolling back in again... someone
upstairs was very kind to us.

       Tony




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