(meteorobs) Quick summary of Dec 11/12 2015 Geminid obs from North Florida

[pmartin at teksavvy.com]

Hello Paul,

Fantastic report!  A friend and I are on our way to Texas... long road trip expedition for the Geminids!  The south-central and south-west seem to be one of the few areas on the entire continent with clear skies for Sunday night.  We're going to camp out there a few nights.  Looking into the Comanche Springs astronomy site which looks like an impressive place!

Clear skies!
Pierre (from Ottawa.. but currently past St-Louis :)

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Subject: (meteorobs) Quick summary of Dec 11/12 2015 Geminid obs from North Florida
From: "Paul Jones" <jonesp0854 at gmail.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: 2015/12/12 09:43:12


Greetings again all,
      Just a quick overview of my four hour Geminid Marathon session from this morning: What a difference a day makes!  From 130 - 530 EST (0630 - 1030 UT) this morning (Dec 11/12, 2015) from St. Augustine, Florida, I had 127 GEMS and 57 others for 184 total meteors under 6.0 skies.  That's an average of 46 total meteors per hour.
      The GEM hourly counts were: 35, 36, 33 and 24.  Lots of bright GEMs: I had one -4, one -3, two -2 and six -1s!  Also, a spectacular -2 earthgrazing sporadic covered almost the entire sky just minutes before I signed off!!  Overall an amazing show indeed and we are still well short of the actual maximum! 
      More later when I crunch all the numbers.


Clear skies, Paul J in North Florida
  

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