(meteorobs) Antihelion/Chi Orionids

[pmartsching at mchsi.com]

Mark,

I take it that in my case the Antihelion meteors are also included in the Sporadics.

I took it that the Antihelion and Chi Orionids are the same thing.  I'd thought
that perhaps rather than naming the various ecliptic showers that now they are
all called Antihelion meteors.  

In my summaries for my own records I just do the Antihelion meteors for each
individual month without regard for their "shower names".  Of course the
Antihelion meteors of October and November are included with the Taurids,
because they cannot be separated visually, but I still do October and November
separately.  I also do December separately, even tho the Chi Orionids are often
said to begin in late November.  It has always seemed to me that some of the
ecliptic shower dates are somewhat arbitrary - how can you really be sure that
the Taurids/November Antihelions are ended and the Chi Orionids/late November
and December Antihelions begin.  It always bothered me that for months in the
spring the Antihelions are called Virginids even tho the radiant was very far
away from Virgo.

Paul