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Re: (meteorobs) H-B, Evening and Morning
At 08:55 PM 3/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>And to rub it in frt/ further, I saw it this evening for the first time
>in months (me and mornings don't agree unles I;'m doing a Messier marathon..)
>I started looking at 6:15 and finally spotted it about 10 minutes later. It
>was OBVIOUS to the naked eye even from our not-so-dark campus. I promptly
>set the 16 inch Cassegrain on it, waited until 7 (actually 6:45) and then
started
>funneling up my own students and then everybody else I could find lurking
>around the Department. By 7 it was really nice to the eye, the tail was
>a good 1.5 degrees and it was BY FAR the brightest thingg in the area.
>Throiugh the scope at low power the tail curled off to the left extending
>way our of the fild/ field and the coma was weird'y shaped (sorry, no
>expert descriptions like my colleagues). But it was neat neat neat! I can't
>wait to start the public viw/ viewing sessions.
>
Hi STARCHILD
Where are you located?
Ron Rennie
Lomita, CA