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2001\11\18@032851 by Russell McMahon

Where-ever you are on earth (but ideally Northern hemisphere). Tonight SHOULD be the best Leonid peak until 2099. Search for "Leonids" or step outside and check the (night) sky Southern hemisphere only towards dawn. RM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@034151 by Peter May

Canberra Australia Here. Round 4 am apparently.... Maybe if I could get a PIC to kick me in the butt I might have a chance of getting up and seeing them. IS this a sign of getting old? Being interested ion something described to me some 20 years ago at school. Regards, Peter. {Original Message removed}

2001\11\18@093115 by Bob Ammerman

My lovely wife woke me up this morning at 4AM. W got the kids up (the 16 year old wouldn't go), grabbed a ground cloth and some sleeping bags and headed for the country. We lay mesmerized on the ground for about 45 minutes. I am sure we made some memories that our children will carry with them for the rest of their lives. Bob Ammerman RAm Systems {Original Message removed}

2001\11\18@102642 by David VanHorn

At 09:31 AM 11/18/01 -0800, Bob Ammerman wrote: >My lovely wife woke me up this morning at 4AM. W got the kids up (the 16 >year old wouldn't go), grabbed a ground cloth and some sleeping bags and >headed for the country. We lay mesmerized on the ground for about 45 >minutes. I am sure we made some memories that our children will carry with >them for the rest of their lives. > >Bob Ammerman >RAm Systems Totally fogged in here, for the last 36 hours. @#!$##! -- Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org Got a need to read Bar codes? http://www.barcodechip.com Bi-directional read of UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, JAN, and Bookland, with two or five digit supplemental codes, in an 8 pin chip, with NO external parts. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@104908 by Kathy Quinlan

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2001\11\18@105103 by Herbert Graf

> At 09:31 AM 11/18/01 -0800, Bob Ammerman wrote: > >My lovely wife woke me up this morning at 4AM. W got the kids up (the 16 > >year old wouldn't go), grabbed a ground cloth and some sleeping bags and > >headed for the country. We lay mesmerized on the ground for about 45 > >minutes. I am sure we made some memories that our children will > carry with > >them for the rest of their lives. > > > >Bob Ammerman > >RAm Systems > > Totally fogged in here, for the last 36 hours. @#!$##! Yes here too (Toronto, Canada), I actually got up at 4am to see if there was anything to see but the fog meant more sleep time for me! :( TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@124714 by Thomas McGahee

Got up and watched the meteorite shower from 4:30 am to 5:30 am here in Paterson, New Jersey. Did it laying on the top of the school roof. There was a fair amount of light pollution as we are in the city, but I found a nice patch of open sky that was almost exactly straight overhead. About half of the time I was using the unaided eye. This gave me a fairly broad field of vision and I saw about 60 shooting stars this way. The other half of the time I used a night vision scope that has a gain of about 30,000. This reduced the field of vision, but enhanced the ability to see some of the smaller shooting star trails as they passed through my field of vision. I counted about 80 trails using the night vision scope, so altogether I saw about 140 "shooting stars". By the way, with the night vision scope I can see many many more stars than I can with the unaided eye, and even when I wasn't seeing a meteorite trail, I could see an amazing proliferation of stars. I also spotted 5 satellites. All in all, well worth spending an hour of my life gazing up at the sky at night. Fr. Thomas McGahee -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@131444 by Jim

RE: the satellite and night vision scope - Could elaborate as to what you obeserved when you saw the sats and also what model 'night scope' you were using? Thanks in advance. Jim {Original Message removed}

2001\11\18@134514 by Alexandre Domingos F. Souza

>My lovely wife woke me up this morning at 4AM. W got the kids up (the 16 >year old wouldn't go), grabbed a ground cloth and some sleeping bags and >headed for the country. We lay mesmerized on the ground for about 45 >minutes. I am sure we made some memories that our children will carry with >them for the rest of their lives. No photos? ;o) ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- Alexandre Souza spam_OUTtaitoTakeThisOuTterra.com.br http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/pinball/ ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@135908 by steve

Auckland, New Zealand. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Steve. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@153640 by Chris Carr

> Totally fogged in here, for the last 36 hours. @#!$##! > That's why you don't waste your time with the pretty optical effects which you may or may not see because of the weather but make use of the ionisation trails which is a lot more interesting and may prove to be more available (when we get round to processing the data) Hey it's even an opportunity to use yet more PIC's and it gives the Spooks at Menwith Hill and Fylingdales something to think about. How do we detect the falling meteorite so we can direct the antennas in the right direction and elevation if we cannot see it? What's the smiley for an extremely large grin? Chris Carr -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@172858 by Jinx

Awe-inspiring, spectacular, dazzling, embiggening, humbling, epiphanic, meteorific Just some of the words I wish I could have used about the Leonids, not the stream of oaths and gutter invective that made the wallpaper curl and the cat look away in disgust and embarrassment. Once more, the Universe Inc CEO (Celestial Events Organiser) plants a turd on my path through life, which I gullibly stepped on to. Yet again The only glimmer of hope for seeing flitting stars was when I banged my head on the desk as I took my shoes off. Unfortunately I suffer from "Roger Rabbit Syndrome", and was merely pestered by a small flock of a-little-too-happy bluebirds for a minute or two I'd have been better off doing that deal with the kid next door for him to throw left-over sparklers off his roof for me to oooh and aaah at > Auckland, New Zealand. > > zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz > > Steve. Lucky stiff -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\18@215104 by Russell McMahon

> Awe-inspiring, spectacular, dazzling, embiggening, humbling, > epiphanic, meteorific Well, you often can't have everything, but I would rate what I saw as 1,2, ?4?, ?5, ???7??? above > Once more, > the Universe Inc CEO (Celestial Events Organiser) plants a turd on > my path through life, which I gullibly stepped on to. Yet again Ye would nae be developing a victim mentality there would ye laddie? On Sunay morning at 4am I dressed up warmish & dryish and lay in the local park for 90 minutes odd, stared at the sky and saw no Leonids. The one interesting south to north satellite was almost worth the time and just staring at the starry sky balanced the ledger sheet to the positive. Last night (Monday morning NZ time) I got up at 3:15am and dressed up warmish etc etc and travelled to St Heliers and saw 30+ Leonids from the park at the end of the known world, while being spied on by one of the local TV teams. (See TV3 6pm News Monday night - you may hear comments about my having thermal underwear on)(The which was very welcome due to somewhat nippy conditions which everyone else complained about). The children belong to a friend who gave a much more erudite speech for the camera than I would have been capable of, thermal long-johns notwithstanding. . I suspect that I would have done quite well from the local Te Atatu park - local cloud cover is THE biggest factor. I'll be back (local park only) (CEO willing) for one more try tonight (Tuesday morning NZ). From about 3am look between N and E and from horizon right up to zenith and beyond (tricky blighters). Small ones were visible from 3 I'm told and got brighter by 4. Try to have something block out city lights. Display continues till well past dawn. If Jupiter is bright then meteorites may be visible. Consider investing one more early arising "just in case". We are theoretically past the peak but past results have shown that, as with the stockmarket, past performance is not an indicator of future results (not totally anyway). I rang a friend in Hamilton at 4:15am - the CEO had laid on wall to wall cloud there and he saw nothing (except cloud). regards Russell . -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

2001\11\19@013430 by Jinx

> > Once more, > > the Universe Inc CEO (Celestial Events Organiser) plants a turd on > > my path through life, which I gullibly stepped on to. Yet again > > Ye would nae be developing a victim mentality there would ye laddie? Oh yeah, poster-boy for Victim Support. Jinx by name, Jinx by nature But actually things may be picking up. I took a ride in a $600,000 Mercedes yesterday. Wouldn't mind buying it. Got bags of room inside, huge motor, and very smooth. Don't think Stagecoach sell their buses though > Last night (Monday morning NZ time) I got up at 3:15am and dressed up > warmish etc etc and travelled to St Heliers and saw 30+ Leonids from the I waited 1/2 hour, saw just one, give it the fingers, quick fumble in the PJ's and back to bed. If, a big IF, I wake up in the night I'll have a look, but don't fancy travelling anywhere. I believe this suburb has a N-E just as efficient and up-to-date as most others' -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

2001\11\19@022124 by Quentin

OK, You guys complaining about the cloud cover. You think you had it bad. I had cloud cover and daylight.... So Jinx, there are still some glimmer of hope for you left... :) Quentin -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

2001\11\19@023412 by Jinx

> OK, You guys complaining about the cloud cover. You think > you had it bad. I had cloud cover and daylight.... So Jinx, > there are still some glimmer of hope for you left... > > :) > Quentin OK OK, no more moaning Minnie -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

2001\11\19@075030 by Thomas McGahee

Satellites are near-earth objects, and you can normally spot them as objects that appear to move rather fast relative to the stars in the background. Geo-synchronous satellites appear more or less fixed in position. If one is overhead you can usually spot it in the early morning hours when it reflects a lot of sunlight while the sky still appears dark. My night scope is a soviet union police scope. It uses mirror optics, something like a questar or reflecting telescope. This allows the scope to gather a LOT of light. If you are out of focus, then a sharp spot of light will look like a ring of light. The scope I used will focus from about 25 ft to infinity. When properly focused the image is quite sharp. I bought the night vision scope for $200. Besides visible light, it is quite sensitive to infra-red as well. Fr. Tom McGahee {Original Message removed}

2001\11\19@113831 by Peter L. Peres

>How do we detect the falling meteorite so we can direct >the antennas in the right direction and elevation if we cannot >see it? What's the smiley for an extremely large grin? They come in bunches, all from the same direction, and 'illuminate' a certain part of the sky that is predictable. If you point your antenna there at the right time for your area then you can make at least one single bounce at VHF or UHF which should allow a contact at >2000km at that altitude of 'illumination'. I assume that you point at the 'illuminated' area when it is just over your horizon and just over the intended receiver's horizon. Still need lots of power and antenna gain. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

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