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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Adler Crew, the Perseid's and Lake Geneva -
12 August 2005

The young energetic Telescope Operator crew at the Adler made intricate plans to catch the Perseid's from darker skies, away from Chicago. Now, it's difficult for me to get away more than an over night and the skies didn't look too promising...so I declined the offer to tag along. But later, as Chicago was under a blanket of clouds, the Lake Geneva skies opened up for the crew...showing them celestial wonders and presenting a good meteor show.

Arvind sent me greetings from the campsite and updates on the activities that early morning via blackberry. I thought that was too cool!... ;D We exchanged mails for a bit, and they continued to observe.

This pic they sent me made me laugh and smile. It's dubbed "Where's Joe"? pic...

I recognize: Bill, ?,?,Vladi, Arvind, Linda, Alfred and Rajasi.

Under rigid spectroscopy standards and highly scanned processes I can't go into here, I discovered an anomaly. Remarkably... I WAS in the pic! Never miss a photo-op I always say...

The entire Arvind series of the trip can be found here at this link:

pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/astrocohort/album?.dir=/d5ac&.src=ph&.tok=ph28.dDBGJtXo5.U

I'm anticipating the narratives of the crew's Perseid experience. Perhaps for the Leonids, (my fav), we can do it all together.

Nice that the crew thinks of the Chicago Astronomer!... ;D

[electriceye]

Great pics you guys ill bet that was fun wish i could of been there for that. How clear were the skys in geneva and what did you see?

[astrocohort]

The clouds opened up - so we could see a few constellations , andromeda, Messier objects near teapot from 10pm to 11:30 pm or so. Then between 00:00 and 04:00 - we all were lying down on the ground - looking at the summer triangle region, we must have seen 12-13 meteors in the 1st hr (00:00 - 1 am), 5-6 in the hr between 2:30 am - 3:30 am. some were clear and sharp - was thrilling to see. Collectively more - as some of us were looking at different parts of the sky. I think we were busy eating between 1 am - 2am . A few satellites & Mars in addition. Unfortunately Bill did not bring his 10" - thinking the skies won't be good - otherwise could have looked at some more deepsky objects.

[rajasi]

FYI:- I should have surfed the forum before posting the new thread. I just posted a new thread under the comets/meteors section on this page which has links to some more pictures which we took next day at the yerkes observatory. It's basically the an addition to this one.

Or you can just click here.
astronomer.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=Comets&action=display&thread=1124983970


Rajasi.