(meteorobs) am i going to miss them??

[Malcolm J. Currie]

Joe Rao wrote:
> Another caveat is that when the meteoroids were ejected from the comet back
> in 1932, their ejection velocities were unusually high.  This  generally
> corresponds to very small particles, which in turn tend to produce  rather faint
> meteors. Indeed, in 1969, having been a witness of that  particular display, I
> can tell you that about 90 percent of the meteors  that I saw were short, dim
> streaks.

It's an opportunity not to be missed by telescopic-meteor observers.

Suitable pairs of charts are 123 and 147, 80 and 146, 81 and 145, 103
and 146.  Sadly PDF scans of only charts 81, 103, and 147 are available
in the A, B, and D sets from

   ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/ukirt/mjc/charts/a
                                                  b
                                                  d

Now I see that there's sane support for our scanner on Linux, I may be
able to get some more charts scanned.

Malcolm Currie