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re: (meteorobs) How do you do it?
I think most of us find that a nap before starting observations can help
most nights. I start to shift my sleep pattern a day or two before last
quarter moon. At last quarter, the moon rises at midnight, when rates begin
to pick up. Over the next few nights an hour or so of post midnight time is
added every day, but there's a cutoff that lets me get enough sleep for
work....the moonrise. Again after first quarter, the moon sets at midnight
so I try and nap before then, planning to observe after then. By 3 days
before full, there's only an hour or two between moonset and twilight in
the winter. In the summer, twilight is earlier so the potential observing
window is shorter. Not too hard to deal with
Right around the New Moon??? Well, that's why I save a little vacation
time. :->. And also plan my summer vacations for the week of the new moon.
That's my plan, which is of course made much easier by the fact that
ITS ALWAYS CLOUDY!!!
$^%*&^%*(&^(&$#) *&^_*&& %74(&^%% it! (And no Jonathan, I cannot translate
that for you....there's words in there I've never even heard of :-)
Wayne
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From: gemini86@junodot com (Michael J Norrell), on 12/18/96 7:59 AM:
To: <meteorobs@latradedot com>
I continue to read about how many of you observe all night for a few
nights then go back to a "normal" sleep-wake schedule then stay up all
night again.
I always have found that when you sleep is determined by habit. For
example: If for about a week or more you go to bed at 9:00pm then the
following week you will naturally be tired at 9:00pm. Many people who
work night shifts are naturally awake all night and are use to sleeping
in the day. But for a meteor observer who has school or work during the
day; how do you constantly change the sleep-wake schedule on your body
and on some nights, when you don't observe, sleep. And stay awake on
other nights to observe for seemingly long hours?
Michael