[AZ-Observing] Re: Any Advice?

aj

That's a very creative alarm clock--my compliments.

Tony Muller
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From: "AJ Crayon" <acrayon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:25 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Any Advice?


>
> Stan et al, Wil brings up an interesting and worthy comment about taking a
nap
> between observing and problems the cooling night air can do to a battery
> powered clock.
>
> What I do to limit the napping is to not dress very warmly and not take
the
> nature break when the nap begins.  After about an hour, or so, both the
cooled
> down night air and the lacking nature break are interfering with the
pleasant
> rest.  It gets to the point were you HAVE TO GIVE UP on the nap and get up
to
> take care of yourself;o))  Works great for me, I don't know if others have
> tried it.
>
> Hope this helps,
> aj
>
> Wil Milan wrote:
>
> > Stan,
> >
> >
> > One problem to be aware of with naps: If it's cold outside and you're
usi=
> > ng
> > a battery-powered timer to wake you up, the cold may weaken the battery
> > to the point that the alarm won't go off and you'll sleep through till
mo=
> > rning,
> > which is not what you want. (Been there, done that :-). In my case it
too=
> > k
> > me a few times to figure it out because the timer looked OK -- the LCD
st=
> > ill
> > showed the correct time -- but there wasn't enough spare juice in the
bat=
> > tery
> > to work the beeper.) Either use a timer powered by the battery in your
ca=
> > r,
> > or keep the timer inside your jacket so that it will stay warm enough to
> > ring when the time is up.
> >
>
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