[Chaos-l] observing session at Jordan tonight/night vision impairment

Terry Crook terrycrook at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 13 21:42:44 EDT 2010


  Sure beats trying to educate the unwashed masses in stargazing 
courtesy matters!
There will always be "some dumb SOB who didn't get the word" (to borrow 
the punch line from an old USMC joke about Adml John Paul Jones) but we 
could live with that!

Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W

On 8/13/2010 8:38 PM, Jon Stewart-Taylor wrote:
>> I know on some cars, if you engage the parking brake one click or so 
>> (not enough to engage the brake) the always-on headlights will turn off.
>
> This works on my saturn.  Until you go over something like 8-10 MPH.  
> Then it overrides and turns them on again.
>
> Still worth trying, though.



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