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(meteorobs) New Subscriber Introduction: Robert Fuerst


Robert may have been our earliest starter yet - 10 years old! A hearty welcome,

Lew

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From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <FUEC0@towanda.sylvaniadot com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 10:10:00 PST

As an avid observer of meteors since about the age of 10 I am amazed that there 
is such an interest in tracking, brightness (magnitude right?), etc. (I found 
this thanks to WWW!)  I have noticed a few mailings about color.  As I am 
color-impaired (P.C.) ie. strong red-green and slight yellow-blue I am not ever 
sure what I see is what everyone else sees.  Many questions arise such as how do 
you know when the light is green, etc.  I can assure you that I  see green 
grass,  blue water, skies.   On Sat. night the Leonid or fireball directly 
overhead from NE PA at 3:50 EST was an orange color when it first entered and 
then turned to a deep blue or maybe purple before it was gone. This is the same 
one I believe the Chile report talks about as the trail was visible for about 20 
min. and split into a v-shape. I am not sure about degrees etc. It (the trail) 
was about 3' long at arms length Now, do the colors I see seem the same to 
everyone else?  I love the change of seasons up here like everyone else but 
there is no way to know exactly what other people perceive the leaves colors to 
be .  Just as someone blind from birth would know what sight was.  I wonder what 
would occur  if a child was raised thinking that grass is red and the sky is 
green?  I only find out how bad my color perception is when I take the color 
blindness test and get through the first couple pages before the pages just look 
like color dots

                              Thanks,
                                   1st

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