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(meteorobs) Saturday's IRC chat a real quorum!
This Saturday's chat (still going strong as I write this) was a wonderful
event, bringing together many different meteor enthusiasts from around the
globe (and more may have arrived later).
In attendance when *I* had to leave were:
astronomer77 Bob from Massachusetts USA
gwnorth Cathy from the Great White North (Canada)
jim_r Jim from AMS Radiometeor Land (Florida)
kc5gxl Dan from Texas USA
MAmeteors some email listadmin from Mass/Fla. USA
MOLSI Sirko (long-timer) from Germany
NormanM Norman (long-timer) from Florida USA
normwb6sh Norm (radio meteors) from California USA
werfried Werfried, #namn resident radiometeor expert
Among many highlights of the chat, Sirko reminded us of a simulation
program written for IMO, to help observers prepare for observing a METEOR
STORM... It provides an on-screen simulation of conditions similar to those
in a Leonid-type storm. This software is for DOS (better in true DOS, will
run in a DOSbox), and a fast graphics card helps to run it.
Download it from the International Meteor Organization site at:
http://www.imodot net/visual/major03.html
or directly via ftp from IMO's ftp server.
Thanks all, and hope to "see" you again next week!
Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs@latrade.com>
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