(meteorobs) Orionid Prospects?

[meteoreye at comcast.net]

I hate Comcast. This is my second time typing this reply, they ate the first one.

For you the morning of the 21st, moonrise is midnight CDT with the ORI radiant at 20 degrees elevation. It's only 15 or 20 degrees away.
Morning of 22nd, moonrise is 1 AM with radiant at 30 degrees (half the ZHR if you have +6.5 skies)
Morning of the 23rd, Moonrise 2:15 AM witth radiant ~ 40 degrees.

If the pattern of the last 2 years holds, ZHR was >25 from Sol Long 207-211 which is morning of 20th to morning of 24th. ZHR > 50 from morning of 21st to 23rd. So there is some time available after the "official" peak.

Wayne

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Bill Godley <wwgj180 at yahoo.com> 

> I have been itching to get out and observe (just some SPOs and an occassional 
> bright TAU would be nice) but lately something always seems to get in the way . 
> I tried to get some time late last week into the weekend but to no avail. Now, 
> I have my sights set on the Orionids. I studied Bob Lunsford's write-up on the 
> AMS site. I know pre-peak looks pretty bleak, but it looks like there will be 
> some moonless, post-midnight hours on the following nights. Looking at the 2006 
> profile data, rates were still pretty good for the nights in question. Any 
> reason not to believe they will be so this year? Anyone care to comment? 
> 
> I'll be looking either way. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Bill Godley 
> 
> 
> 
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