RE: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-21 Thread Kent Gittings
ll for only $15. Kent Gittings -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peifer, William [OCDUS] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular Kent wrote: > Ac

RE: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-20 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Kent wrote: > Actually some of the telescope places (mine also) sell 12v adapter powered > hair dryer/dew removers. Hi Kent, Yeah, what some folks won't do to keep their corrector plates dry. :-) I see the Kendrick heaters advertised quite a bit (the ones with the heating elements that look li

Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-19 Thread aimcompute
nterests... Industialcraptrackology? :-) Tom C. - Original Message - From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:05 AM Subject: Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular > Cotty wrote: > > > Robo, that was a s

RE: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-19 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
; -Original Message- > From: aimcompute [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular > > HI Bill, > > Nice anecdotes. When you mention the dew-beater-heater thing

Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-19 Thread Cotty
>somewhere there's an astrophotographer who lives and breathes meteor showers >and has been photographing them exclusively for 20 years who will drive 500 >miles to get the best shot etc., etc., etc. IOW, somebody else will do it >much better so why bother. > >But then, I sometimes shoot pictures

Re: Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-18 Thread Cotty
>so, my wife and i got my 11yr and 8yr old daughters up at 245am. with >sleeping bags and flash lights along w/layers of fleece, gloves and hats, [snip] Robo, that was a smashing tale about your rooftop viewing of the Leonids. Well done, mate, that's staying power! Hope the shots work out. W

RE: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-18 Thread Amita Guha
Thanks for that great report, Rob! Nate and I spent the night at my mother's place near the tip of the North Fork of Long Island. We woke up at around 4AM and left the house a half hour later. I could tell it was going to be a good shoot because while Nate was scraping the frost off the car, I sa

Re: Leonid meteor shower WAS truly spectacular

2001-11-18 Thread RobFilms
to all pug-sters- thanks for turning me onto the Leonid meteor shower. It was absolutely breathtaking. I would never had known of it's existence w/o u fellow pug-people. i'm in northern riverdale, a small neighborhood just north of manhattan, ny. i thought about going to watch the showers