On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 14:54, Austad, Jay wrote: > Did anyone else go outside last night and take a look at the meteor shower? > Around 3:30 it was cloudy so I didn't think I'd be able to see it, but I > played some Halo on my roomie's Xbox for about an hour and the clouds had > gone away. I was able to see about 1 every 5 seconds or so, with several > bursts of 5 or 10 of them at once. And that was in Brooklyn park, not in > the boonies. > > Also, since light pollution is such a problem near cities, I wonder if that > pollution is mostly around a particular wavelength. If so, would it be > possible to make a filter to look through that would not pass a particular > range of wavelengths? I'm no physics expert, but something like this might > be possible to improve the visibility of objects the sky near large cities. I camped out under the stars last night in Wisconsin (East Farmington, near Osseola), and enjoyed the show from about 1 AM until it got cloudy around 4. I went to sleep, then woke up again around 5, but it was still too cloudy to see anything, so I slept the rest of the night. It was nice while it lasted, though. Dave -- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011118/73848fae/attachment.pgp