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(meteorobs) Re: Florida hardly any Geminids
The moon wiped out the Geminids 2000 Dec 12/13 worse than I could have
imagined. In early observing for 1:27 hours (beginning 809 PM) I saw only 3
meteors total : 2 Geminids and 1 sporadic. During a partly cloudy period of
28 minutes I saw one casual Geminid. I quit in disgust at 10 PM. No
meaningful conclusion about the shower can be drawn. After 3 AM another
half hour of watching I saw only 1 more Geminid. During our dog walk
neither of us saw anything. Joan spent about 45 minutes watching at home
early while I was at the remote site, and she didn't see any meteors at all.
This was the maximum night with evidently almost all faint Geminids. Fog in
town came by in a couple of brief periods and then moved on. It was a balmy
night, temps in low 70'sF early and 65F for the low. Most of the night was
clear, but seeing so little in the time I was outside did not induce me to
make any more effort than I did. Hope everybody slept peacefully where too
cold or cloudy to watch : you sure didn't miss anything.
Tonight (Dec 13/14) there should be something to see as the period of bright
Geminids comes by. We will begin about 9 PM at the Lehigh Acres site.
Norman
Norman W. McLeod III
Staff Advisor
American Meteor Society
Fort Myers, Florida
nmcleod@peganet.com
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