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Re: (meteorobs) Leonid data
It takes a real man to admit he's been screwed like that!
There but for the grace of God go I..dot it's just dumb luck My radio shack
recorder has no pause button.
(Kevin doesn't know he left 15 minutes before the -7 fireball :-). And he's
promised to do the Geminids,
even if we haven't cleaned up all the brass monkeyparts by then.
BTW, Kevin, I always erase my tapes now before reusing..just to avoid
confusion from when I accidently push the button at the wrong end, which is
Fast Forward. And I have developed the habit of checking at least once an
hour to ensure all is functioning well. Of course it's only a matter of
time before I lose a night's data and start writing as well. For the
Geminids, I think it will still be straight taping...don't want to lose a
moment.
Wayne
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Original Text
From: KevTK@aoldot com, on 11/18/96 3:46 PM:
To: <meteorobs@latradedot com>
Well, almost. Observing from New Jersey Wayne and I have a good show. I too
noticed many fireballs with persistant trains. Being new it was hard for me
to estimate anything over -4 (Venus comparison) but it did look great.
I observed from 0500 UT thru 0830 UT when I had to pack up my gear and
drive straight to work. Now the bad news... I found a quite time for myself
Sunday afternoon to transcribe my data, and I got thru the first LM check
and
4 meteors worth. Then I noticed a LM check that I didn't do that night (I
use
the same tape over and over)...yep... I must have accidently pushed the
pause
button, so for the rest of my night I was speaking into a paused recorder.
That recorder doesn't know how close it came to being flung out the
window.
Some I witnesses a good Lion growl but thats about it. I'm off to Radio
Shack
to but a new recorder without a da*n pause button...at least it was a clear
night (sigh).
Kevin