Re: Perseids, After Hours

[P3D Thomas Gillam <ThomGillam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D KENNETH LUKER wrote:
> 
> I'm very groggy this morning because I spent the entire night five
> miles south of the Great Salt Lake photographing the Perseid Meteor
> Shower in stereo.  I don't have the results yet, but I believe they
> will not be favorable.  The stereo setup was fine, I believe:  My
> son Adam and I were separated by just under two miles to give a base
> of about one-thirtieth the distance to the 60-mile high meteors.

> Walky talkies would have been a good tool.>

Ken, good luck with your meteor pairs.  I attempted the same thing a
couple of years ago, with no success.  We had walkie talkies, but the
batteries went dead, and we could not communicate even at a distance of
1/4 mile.  I think something could be arranged with cell phones.

Alas, even with a synchronized plan like yours, as a contingency, there
was nothing we could do when the clouds rolled in.

Thom


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