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Re: (meteorobs) Fireball mags...
At 11:41 AM 9/6/97 -0700, Wes Stone wrote:
>Speaking of lightning flashes, maybe these could be used to train oneself
>for making fireball estimates. There was a serious thunderstorm 25 miles
>away from the Oregon Star Party, with periodic blinding flashes intruding
>into an otherwise 7th-magnitude sky. If I had wished to subject myself to
>these and faced the "radiant" rather than turning away, maybe I could have
>gotten some practice in for estimating the "big one".
I really liked this idea, Wes! Sort of like turning lemons into lemonade:
take an otherwise frustrating deep-sky evening, and turn it around into
meteor deep training. :) Only problem is, how would you check your
magnitude estimates for accuracy as the lightning flashes occured?
Lew, on London time for a few weeks...