(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[Paul Jones]

I hear you, Pete.  I was hopeful, but not very expectant.  I'm not too far
ahead of you on seeing Draconids either, only seeing a very few of them in
all of some 38 years of observing meteors.  In 1998, while still living in
Sicily, I was able to catch the last remnants of that year's outburst,
seeing four faint ones in about an hour's time. For that, I considered
myself lucky indeed!  Had I been in Sicily this year, I might have caught a
few again... These puppies are tough to catch!  Seems I'm always in the
wrong place at the wrong time for the Draconids...;o).

Clear skies, Paul in north Florida

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Bias, Peter V <pbias at flsouthern.edu> wrote:

> Hi Paul,****
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> 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.
> ****
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> Pete (from central Florida: Lakeland)****
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> *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****
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> 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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