[meteorite-list] Lousy Leonids 2006 ==> next dependable meteor shower timing

[Gerald Flaherty]

Keep us up to date on the Quantradis Doug!!
COOOOLD tho.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug at aim.com>
To: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2 at verizon.net>; "Robert Woolard" 
<meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Lousy Leonids 2006 ==> next dependable meteor shower timing


> Dear List,
>
> Had clear, fairly dark skies all night, observed 23:00 - 01:00 EST 
> Saturday night/Sunday Morning covered the peak of the Leonids, which have 
> always been a tough call no one can figure out...
>
> After seeing one reasonable fireball at 23:30, I spent the rest of the 
> time bs-ing with other astronomers hoping a chance glance might catch my 
> eye. Those experts that spent the time wired on having a successful 
> evening boasted a total of 3-4 each in the 1.5 hour period, all reasonably 
> bright, but really nothing to write home about.
>
> My favorite shower, the sometimes electrifying Quadrantids on January 3/4 
> 2007 will be a lunar disaster to write off, and it looks like casual 
> meteor observers looking for a bang for the buck will have to wait until 
> perfect astronomical conditions line up by observing during the New Moon 
> at the the 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC) 13 August 2007 shower peak of the 
> historically dependable PERSEIDS, though the parent body is receding more 
> and supposedly finally taking more of its dustpile with it.
>
> So mark your calenders for the Perseids, before work on Monday 13 Aug 2007 
> if you only want to pick one shower next year where you probably won't be 
> disappointed.  The Perseus radiant is high in the sky, and it will also be 
> a perfect opportunity to see with naked eyes or binoculars the Great 
> Galaxy in Andromeda, named for the constellacion of the hot African 
> princess Perseus himself unshackled from the jaws of a seamonster and then 
> savoured for his toils producing among others, a son who was the father of 
> the Persians.  The Andromeda Galaxy is essentially the furthest we can see 
> with the naked eye, and only object we can se outside our own Mikly Way 
> Galaxy in the Northern Hemisphere since the slightly further Triangulum 
> galaxy requires shameless prodigal vision.
>
> Best wishes,
> Doug
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2 at verizon.net>
> To: "Robert Woolard" <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>; 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Leonids 2006 ???
>
>
>> cloud cover at midnite on cape cod MA
>> Jerry Flaherty
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Robert Woolard" <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>
>> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:24 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Leonids 2006 ???
>>
>>
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>>  Hope some of you had a better show than we did.
>>> Perhaps you guys on the east coast?? Perfectly clear
>>> skies here in Arkansas, but very few meteors, and no
>>> nice fireballs. Pretty much like the prediction it
>>> seems. How was it for the rest of you?
>>>
>>>  Best wishes,
>>>  Robert Woolard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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