(meteorobs) The Moonlit Perseids

[dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de]

> Speaking of over the top, does anybody know how the tweetfest
> went? I'm a Twitter guy myself, but it's practically in an anti-Universe
> to meteor observing.

Something I tried to explain to the 'MeteorWatch' organizer for years, but
to no avail. As in the past years, the idea generated a lot of noise (like
endless re-tweets of "the peak is coming" messages when it was long gone)
and no real-time representation whatsoever of what was going on in the
sky; if you took the time to browse through hundreds of #meteorwatch
messages, you could find the occasional useful link to some image, though.

Still the effort has been hailed in the past (by astronomy outreach folks,
not meteor observers) as raising awareness of meteor showers and making
people look for meteors or in the sky in general who wouldn't otherwise -
I have no idea whether there are hard numbers to prove that assertion.
Even one dedicated *real* visual observer 'born' this way would be an
achievement - but is there one, just one?

Dan