(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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