(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[LEO STACHOWICZ]

Not quite as well placed as East Asia in terms of radiant altitude in 2001, but if memory serves we were seeing rates of around 2500 hr from our observing site in Mount Isa, North-Central Australia. 


It was by far the least light polluted site I have ever had the pleasure to observe from. Both surreal and extraordinary at the same time! 

Clear skies,

Leo



________________________________
 From: Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
To: Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 22:35
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida
 
Bruce and All,

Yes the 2001 Leonids were impressive from North America but I believe they were even better from East Asia. 

I agree your 16UT statement. These recent flurries certainly seem to favor the hours between 12 and 24 UT. Perhaps the display from comet 209P/LINEAR in May 2014 will end this frustration.

Clear Skies,

Bob

---- Bruce McCurdy <bmccurdy at shaw.ca> wrote: 
> The 2001 Leonids were mighty well-placed for North America. 
> 
>  
> 
> I got more in Leonids one hour (655) than total meteors for any other night
> in my 25 years of meteor observing.
> 
>  
> 
> Still, I'm getting mighty sick of reading "16h UT" for some of these intense
> flurries. 
> 
>  
> 
> Bruce
> 
> *****
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Robert Lunsford
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:08 PM
> To: Meteor science and meteor observing
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north
> Florida
> 
>  
> 
> 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 < <mailto:jonesp0854 at gmail.com> 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
> 
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