[meteorite-list] Lawrencite

[mexicodoug at aim.com]

Good Luck Bernd - you're not the only fossil-astronomer in the Digital 
Era out there using paleo-alchemy to turn meteoric light into gold (and 
all the other beautiful colors).  Good luck!

Question: St. Lawrence (225 – 258 AD), the patron Saint of the Perseids 
- Is he the same demon Lawrence inciting diseases upon iron meteorites? 
  I could imagine that since his reputed tears while on the iron grill 
August 10, 258 AD were fiery enough to result in the Perseid Meteor 
Shower being named also the 'Tears of Saint Lawrence').  ...and that 
iron meteorites can have meteoritically tearful endings is it the same 
Lawrence or was it some reputed chemist regarding this reputed compound?
Fine Skies,
Doug
PS It is reputed tht St. Lawrence pays year-round visits to everyone 
not observing his August tears ...


-----Original Message-----
From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 8:31 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] 2008 Perseid Maximum approaching



Hello Listees and Listoids,

I'm getting ready for this year's Perseids here. I've just loaded my 
good, old
Canon AE1-Pr from pre-digital times with an ISO 1000 color reversal film
and am now hoping for better weather conditions (it's cloudy and 
overcast
at the moment). The camera is mounted on a tripod and I' m going to try
exposures between 20 seconds and 1 minute - more eposure time is out of
the question because o
ur suburban sky is severely light-polluted :-(

The maximum is supposed to be in the early afternoon hours of August 
12th for
Central Europe, about sunrise time in the Eastern part of the US and 
about three
o'clock a.m. for Arizona - so get ready for very favorable conditions 
in the Far
West.

Here in Europe, the best time to observe and photograph the Perseids 
will be
tomorrow morning (August 12) after moonset at about one o'clock a.m. 
and also
tomorrow night (August 13) after the Moon sets at about 2 o'clock.

I will point my camera again toward the constellation Cygnus because I 
succeeded
in photographing two Perseids shooting through the Swan some years ago 
and this
constellation is far enough away from the shower's radiant point in 
northern
Perseus.

By the way, against all odds, I also succeeded in taking one picture of 
the
partial
solar eclipse on Friday, August 1. It was very cloudy here but right 
during mid-
eclipse (ca. 20% for my location) I was able to glimpse the sun for a 
brief
moment,
held my digital camera to the eyepiece of my C-90 and took the shot :-)

Happy Viewing
of the Perseids
everywhere,

Bernd

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