(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[Bias, Peter V]

Hi Paul,

I, too, went out for a few minutes around 7:30 and saw nothing. I watched for only 10 minutes and realized I was not going to see my first Draconids.

Pete (from central Florida: Lakeland)

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Paul Jones
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 9:07 AM
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: (meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

Hello all,
    I managed to get in a brief visual look through a sucker hole in the cold front that was passing through north Florida last night (October 8, 2012).  I ws checking to see if anything was left of the Draconid outburst, but saw no meters at all during the 25 minute watch from 7:48 p.m. to 8:13 p.m. EDT from my yard here in St. Augustine.   Limiting Magnitude was pretty good, about 5.5 magnitude through the sucker hole, so I figured I had a good shot of seeing something from them if it was still occurring, but only saw a few airplanes and heard a few mating Barred Owls.
 After 8:13 p.m., the front's clouds reclaimed the sky and that was pretty much that.  I felt fortunate though just to have had the opportunity to check it out.  Had I been lucky enough for something to have been still going on, I would have at least gotten a "piece of the action".   It's all good.
 My sincerest compliments go out to the various worldwide researchers who are doing such amazing and accurate work predicting the occurance of these outbursts.  Well done and thank you on behalf of all meteor folks, we do so appreciate (and love to validate) all  your hard work!!  On to the 2012 Orionids...

Clear skies all, Paul in north Florida
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