Re: Congratulations Chris Peterson

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:19:43 -0700, "Howard Lester" <hlester@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Sky & Telescope's weekly astronomy bulletin just came out and
Chris Peterson's work on the recent Pluto Occultation made the grade.

Here's the story:

http://skytonight.com/news

Where? I can't find it on that page. Please provide a *specific* link.

It's not there anymore (news marches on...). Here's an archive link:
http://skytonight.com/observing/home/Pluto_Occultation_Report.html .

One comment: when Dennis di Cicco wrote that piece, I was still assuming
the path was farther south, and fitting my data to a flat bottomed model
(that is, the assumption was that the occultation was total). We now
know the path was farther north, and was probably just on the edge of
totality from my location. So the current fit shown at
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/pluto2007.html more accurately shows
the profile of the occultation, with the entire event dominated by the
effects of Pluto's atmosphere.

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