(meteorobs) Orionids Oct 21/22 Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

               Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
                      West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                              October 21/22, 2006

   We had some very good transparency on Sunday morning. It was about
as good as I have ever seen it from this location. I can confirm that
there was an outbust of Orionid activity this year. From 4:45 to 7:45
UT, I observed 119 Orionds, 53 the last hour! However, the best meteor
of the session was a nice -4 magnitude Taurid fireball seen at 5:30 UT.
There were several nice Orionids, one -3 magnitude Orionid seen at 7:30
UT had a 6 second train. There were also many Orionids with trains. The
average Orionid was 2.4 magnitude, but there were several of 4th magn.
Below is a short breakdown of the meteor activity observed.

  Time (UT)  LM  %Obst. ORI   NTA   STA   EGE   SPO  Total   FOV   Comments
04:45-05:45  6.4   0%    28    4     0     2     11    45  5.7+37    clear
05:45-06:45  6.6   0%    38    4     1     0     10    53  6.3+23  very 
clear
06:45-07:45  6.6   0%    53    1     0     1     15    70  6.8+20  very 
clear

Magnitude Distributions (04:45-07:45 UT)

    -4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total  Ave.
ORI  0   1   2   6   7  15  24  19  36   9   119   2.4
NTA  1   0   0   0   1   0   0   3   4   0     9   2.6
STA  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0     1   3.0
EGE  0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   2   0     3   3.0
SPO  0   0   0   1   1   2   5   7  13   7    36   3.5

Clear Skies.
GWG