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 Message 611 
 mark lewis to Roger Nelson 
 The "Magic Hour" for Geminid Meteors 
 13 Dec 13 21:25:38 
 
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to mark lewis:

ml> On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to All:
 RN>  
ml>RN> Dec. 13, 2013:  As arctic air and record cold sweeps across the
ml>RN> USA, amateur astronomers are looking at their calendars with a
ml>RN> degree of trepidation. A date is circled: Dec. 14th. And below it
ml>RN> says: "Wake up at 4 AM for the Geminid meteor shower."
 RN>  
ml> i saw 50+ meteors this morning between 0300 and 0530... it was a li'l
ml> chilly in my area ;)
 RN>  
 RN> I'm sure that it was colder there than the 39F we had this morning,

yep... like 25 or so IIRC...

 RN> but there is no way I was going to even look out the window for
 RN> that.  I'm fighting off a chest cold as iit is.

i know that feeling... my sleep cycle is all out of kilter and has been for
months... it is all too easy for me to loose track of days even with clocks
and calendars right in front of me showing me what day and time it is :?

but then, some things just don't ever seen to change :lol:

)\/(ark

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can
think. - Werner Heisenberg

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