(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[Robert Lunsford]

I think we used up our "storm allowance" during the 1966 Leonids. For how long? Who knows??? Hopefully our longitudes will see something in the not too distant future before the demise of our generation of meteor observers.

Come to think of think of it, even the 1966 Leonids were not perfect for North America as the dawn intervened on the Atlantic coast before the maximum :-(

Oh yes, there was the 1985 Alpha Monocerotids, unpredicted, over in a flash (30min), and pretty much unseen. 

Clear Skies!

Bob
 
---- Paul Jones <jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> I've noticed that too, Joe.  It's almost as if North America's been
> declared a "Draconid Free Zone" of late...;o).  Even the 1999 Leonid storm
> did that too, hitting over the Middle East and Europe exclusively.  I was
> clouded out in Sicily for that one, seeing only a five minute glimpse
> through a sucker hole in the clouds.    Fortunately, the Leonids were
> kinder to us over here in 2001 and 2002, however.
> Seriously though, in the case of the Draconids, is there a scientific
> explanation I wonder for a stream outburst to keep hitting the same time
> zones on Earth over and over again, even in different years?  Or is it just
> strictly luck of the draw each time?
> 
> Clear skies and may the Orionids be with us, Paul