(meteorobs) Oct 21 Orionids from eastern Ontario - high activity!

[Koen Miskotte]

Hi Pierre,
Great results! Now, seven hours to go and then I hope to count many 
Orionids!
Best wishes,
Koen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Martin" <dob14.5 at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Oct 21 Orionids from eastern Ontario - high activity!


> Hello,
>
> I had a terrific night of Orionids observing at Bootland Farm!  I
> haven't decoded the tape yet, but I can say that it was easily the
> finest display of Orionids that I've ever seen!  Seemed to start
> rather normal during the first hour or so after I signed on... But
> later on as radiant reached a more decent elevation, the rates
> skyrocketed!  Orionids coming at a steady pace of rates of better
> than one a minute for some rather long lengths of times, followed by
> a few lulls (but really not many) - the action was quite steady.
> EVen had a 3 sec period of SEVERAL successive Orionids!!  Lots of
> very faint stuff, but good numbers of bright ones as well.  Got in a
> magnificent mag -5 ORI fireball... camera caught it too!!  Just as
> dawn was about to be on the way, and clouds began to creep in, rates
> seemed to taper off.
>
> I quickly reviewed my pictures from the two cameras, and several
> Orionids were caught!  One camera even photographed a bright Leo
> Minorid!
>
> I'll start working on decoding the tape and post a full report asap.
>
> I'm looking forward to getting out again late tonight!!
>
> Pierre Martin
> Ottawa, Ontario
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