(meteorobs) quads maximum
Kim Hay
cdnspooky at persona.ca
Fri Jan 2 17:20:50 EST 2009
You are crazy -42C that is not with wind chill. Good luck to you and
the crew Bruce. I evny you, right now its cloudy.....do I trust the
weather forcast that it will clear .....not, but silly me will get up
anyway and go out, right now we are at 0C, and snowing.
Kim Hay
> kcstarguy at aol.com wrote:
> > Aren't the quads predicted to have maximum around 7 am Eastern
> timein US?
> > on Jan 3? I am getting differing points of view for the time of
> the
> > maximum and whether it is morning of 3rd or 4th?
>
> It's the 3rd. The Quads are the "exception" to the rule of
> meteor
> showers moving up a day during a leap year. This is the first Quads
> max
> since the Leap Day, thus the max is ~18 hours earlier than last
> year.
>
> Western North America is best placed for this year's 13h UT max,
> the
> more *north*western the better. In theory. I am taking this to, and
> perhaps
> beyond, its logical extreme as I fly this evening to Yellowknife in
> the
> Northwest Territories (latitude 62 deg 30') where I will join
> Stephen
> Bedingfield in observing the Quadrantids. As I lay in my warm, comfy
> bed
> listening to the lead news item this morning -- a cold snap here in
> Alberta,
> especially in the north -- the thought occurred to me that my plan
> to fly 9
> degrees north to go observing overnight might just qualify me as the
> most
> insane person on the planet for a day. The trip has been planned for
> months,
> but the weather, which was always a variable, will be brutal:
>
> http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/nt-24_metric_e.html
>
> The good news is that the forecast is for clear skies, and the
> Sun won't
> rise in Yellowknife until 10:05 (!) MST, well after the max. The
> even better
> news is that Steve's Ford Explorer is equipped with a moon roof, so
> we will
> be able to have (frequent!) warm-up sessions for our extremities and
> continue observing.
>
> Cast a warm thought in my direction, and stay tuned! This should
> be a
> memorable adventure.
>
> Bruce
> *****
>
>
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