(meteorobs) Appeal to meteorobs observers: please report to IMO

[Chris Peterson]

I don't believe there's any mechanism for reporting video observations 
at the IMO site. So I list those that seem noteworthy here, as well as 
making much of my database available online at 
http://meteor.cloudbait.com.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Taibi" <rjtaibi at hotmail.com>
To: "Meteor Observing Mailing List" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:11 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Appeal to meteorobs observers: please report to IMO

> Hi all,
>
> There are many really good reports about the 2008 Quadrantids here on 
> the Meteorobs list.  However, when I compare names here with those who 
> have registered their watches on the IMO "Quicklook" site 
> (http://www.imo.net/), I don't see many meteorobs people.   This is a 
> shame because valuable data is being lost to the worldwide data 
> gathering organization.  True, it does take time and trouble to 
> complete the IMO procedures, but doing so will yield useful 
> information that will otherwise be lost to an organization that keeps 
> data for future research.  We can make a contribution to scientific 
> data as well as sharing our observational experiences by going to the 
> IMO site: look for the "Quadrantids 2008" heading and click on the 
> "report your observations" link.
>
> Best wishes,  Rich