(meteorobs) New here...

[Paul Jones]

Hello RoseMarie,
      Welcome to the list!  Meteorobs is the happening place for anything
meteor related, you have come to the right place.  You will come to see
that the congeniality, talents and expertise of the folks on this list is
nothing short of amazing, as is what we are willing to go through sometimes
to see our beloved meteors.
      Come on down to Florida...;o).  We seem to be just about as often
clouded out here as everyone else is (sometimes even more so it seems),
but at least our temperatures are a lot more bearable most the time...
      Again, welcome... and always feel free to ask away with any questions
and/or share experiences.

Clear skies, Paul in the (sometimes) Sunshine State...;o)


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, <rmbehr at istar.ca> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Just recently joined this list, happy to see more people like me who
> enjoy the "sparklies"!!  The short bio:  middle-aged woman whose hobby
> is photography, got drawn into shooting the night sky after attending
> talks by local astronomer Terrence Dickinson showing what one can get
> with long exposures, remembering how when teenagers older brother
> would recruit me  to help carry gear to his observatory, now back into
> astronomy and a member of the local chapter of RASC.  Living near
> Kingston, Ontario, where the weather has turned to crap ever since I
> started pointing my camera upwards after sunset a few years ago.
> Didn't help when I bought a 12 inch Skymaster truss dobsonian, it does
> a great job of gathering dust.
>
> Anyway, back to the subject of sparklies:  Bruce, I feel your pain and
> share your grumpiness.  Perseids clouded out, Orionids clouded out,
> Leonids clouded out, now brutal cold has teamed up with the clouds and
> moon to ruin the Geminids.  Came home last night around 10:00 p.m.
> after enjoying a henfest Christmas gathering, stood in the driveway
> for a couple minutes, saw one meteor skipping between the gathering
> clouds.  Realized after 2 minutes that "it ain't happening out here",
> not only -15C but a bit of breeze making the windchill unbearable,
> headed back inside to stoke up the woodstove.  Set the alarm for 3:00
> a.m. when Orion and Gemini head around to the west and can be seen in
> a narrow band out my diningroom window, wanted to put the camera on
> set-it-and-forget-it to run a continuing series, hopefully catching a
> meteor or two, but the clouds had thickened up considerably.  *sigh*
> One can only hope for clear skies during the Quadrantids, and maybe,
> maybe, maybe something will happen when Earth goes spinning through
> the path of the now-defunct ISON.  Dare we hope it gave us something
> useful on the incoming run?
>
> RoseMarie
>
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