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(meteorobs) 1998 Leonids Live!
Folks,
Joe Rao sent me the following message from Bing Quock of the San Francisco
Planetarium. If anyone is interested please contact Bing. His address is at
the end of the message.
George Zay
" I have been contacted by a meteor researcher at NASA who is
planning to observe the peak of the Leonids from a plane out
of Okinawa on November 17th. This peak will be during
daylight hours in the U.S., and the observing session is
expected to take place from about 9:30 a.m. PST to 2:00 p.m.
PST, with the maximum at about 11:00 a.m. PST. He is
negotiating to see if they can broadcast a live-feed from
the plane, which will have a camera pointed straight up from
the aircraft and have a 30-degree field of view. I
volunteered (silly me!) that the whole planetarium community
would probably love to carry it, and he asked me to survey
my colleagues, just so he can get some idea of the level
of interest. He doesn't want his e-mail system to get
swamped, and I'm trying to figure out how to avoid
having that happen to mine, but here goes:
If you/your institution would be interested in carrying a
live feed of the Leonid meteor shower from Asia during the
calculated peak on November 17th, please let me know so I
can convey some sense of the level of interest to him. I'm
only compiling a rough number, so kindly keep your responses
brief.
Please note that this whole thing is still in the planning
stages and that the availability of this feed has not been
finalized, so this is NOT A SURE THING. An indication of
how much interest there is out there will certainly help him
negotiate permission for feed, and if they can pull it off,
it sure could be neat!
Bing Quock
Morrison Planetarium
San Francisco
bquock@calacademy.org