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(meteorobs) Fwd Chris Fuerst RE: meteorobs-digest V1 #254

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>From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <FUEC0@towanda.sylvaniadot com>
>To: "owner-meteorobs-digest@latradedot com" <owner-meteorobs-digest@latradedot com>
>Subject: RE: meteorobs-digest V1 #254
>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 96 08:53:00 PST
>Encoding: 53 TEXT
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>     Jay,
>
>          Amazing I can be so close and never have known about the society. 
> Too bad about this weekend.  I hope the Susquehanna stays on the other side 
>of the street and off mine.  I may be observing from my boat.  Hopefully the 
>Californians will give us good info.
>
>                              Clear skies,
>
>                                   Wet 1st
>
>
>
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>From: owner-meteorobs-digest@latradedot com
>To: meteorobs-digest@latradedot com
>Subject: meteorobs-digest V1 #254
>Date: Friday, December 13, 1996 2:00AM
>
>
>Unfortunately we here in upstate NY are also going to be clouded out for
>the
>Geminids (I wish that Spacehunter movie was on around here ;-))...
>
>BTW, for anyone interested we got two great shots of the Leonids. Both with
>a 28MM lens piggyback for 5-10 mins on the back of our 6 inch astrophysics.
>The first is a nice meteor thru Orion (about 2:00 AM EDT 11/17/96), the
>second at about 4:15 AM EDT of a meteor train that was visible to the naked
>eye for a full 10 mins !!! (by the time I shot it, it was already there for
>about 3 mins. after the fireball (which lit up the area as if it were
>daylight), so the end exposure was about 7 mins. long). We just got done
>scanning & processing them & they should be on our website soon at:
>
>http:\\www.kopernik.org
>
>Until then, if anyone would like a copy (each is about 500K to 750K in
>size)
>let me know & I'll e-mail one or both directly to you (.JPG files - scanned
>with an HP Color Deskscan III from 8x12 full frame prints taken on Kodak
>400
>Pro PPF film at f/2.8))...
>
>Hope others have good luck with the Geminids (the weather station here has
>Flood Warnings posted :-(   )....
>
>Regards & (Regretablly Not) Clear Skies,
>Jay Edwards,
>Pres., Kopernik Astro. Society
>Kopernik Space Education Center, Vestal, NY
>http:\\www.kopernik.org
>
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