If you're already gonna be out in the RV during a meteor shower that's great, keep your eyes to the sky but...I won't plan trips around them.
We're experienced amateur astronomers and learned a long time ago not to put too much stock in anything ANYONE has to say in regard to the predicted intensity of any meteor shower. Yes, a dark location and moonless night helps but beyond that it's pretty much hit or miss.
I schedule the "Dark Sky Star Parties" and most public outreach events for our astronomy club and I just don't even try to schedule events around meteor showers anymore. If there happens to be meteor shower on the weekend nearest the new moon when we hold an event, that's great, and an added bonus, but I don't schedule anything around them. We have a public outreach event scheduled for the night December 12 but no overnight dark sky star party this month since we try to take hiatus in December to give members more time to get ready for the holidays with family.
We did have a wonderful treat during our November 7 star party. In addition to being at a dark sky site, we were treated to a pretty steady stream of Taurid fireballs PLUS, we got to see the much publicized Trident missile launch from the USS Kentucky from very dark skies. We could follow the vehicle long after it left the rocket plume.
I often take phone calls from the public inquiring as to whether or not we're going to have and event for a meteor shower, and I just have to tell that they're too unpredictable to really put on the schedule. I will, and based on where they live, try to direct them to nearby dark sky sites where they MIGHT get a good show.
2005 Winnebago Sightseer WFD30B "rigged for night" with red LED lighting for night adapted vision.
Do you remember when the sky was dark, and the stars were bright?The International Dark-Sky AssociationAmerican by birth...Scottish by the Grace Of God.
