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Re: (meteorobs) Leoind accounts (meteor yell)
In a message dated 9/1/99 10:50:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
greggpasterick@yahoo.com writes:
<< I've gotten some great quotes from a number of adventurers
with the Leonids. >>
When making a recording of a meteor watch among a number of people, you can
make fairly accurate magnitude estimates based on the audio reaction on your
tape upon playback. This is the "ooh method":
Magnitude 4 or fainter: Hey . . . I think I saw a little one out of
the cormer of my eye.
Magnitude 3: ooh!
Magnitude 2: ooh, ooh!
Magnitude 1: oooooh! And it left a bit of a trail too!
Magnitude 0: oooooooooooh! Nice one! All right!!
Magnitude -1 to -3: WHOA! Look at that!! You can still see the trail!
Magnitude -4 to -6 HOLY S**T!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! BINOCULARS!
THAT TRAIN LOOKS LIKE AN AIRPLANE
CONTRAIL!!!! I CAN STILL SEE IT.
That was absolutely incredible wasn't it?
Magnitude -7 and
brighter: AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I DON'T BELIEVE IT!
DID YOU SEE THAT FLASH? IT WAS LIKE A
STROBE GOING OFF! WHERE THE #&*%
ARE MY BINOCULARS? LOOK -- YOU CAN
STILL SEE THE SMOKE TRAIN! SOMEBODY
GET A PHOTO OF THAT BEFORE IT FADES.
GEEZ . . . LOOK AT THE WAY THAT DAMN
THING IS DISTORTING. . . It's going away now,
but I still have it in view in the binocs.
Woo-wee.
Anybody got a cigarette?
-- joe rao
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