(meteorobs) Orionids performed great!

Koen Miskotte koen.miskotte at versatel.nl
Mon Oct 20 07:14:23 EDT 2008


Hello Michel, list
Just finished listening to my digital voice recorder. Result:
Date: 19/20 october 2008
Period : 1:40 to 4:48 UT
Teff : 3,13 hour
48 Orionids, 3 NTA, 2 STA, 2 LMI, 2 EGE, 29 SPO (total 87 meteors)

List with bright Orionids (and other meteors):
1:54 UT -1 Ori train 2 s (Perseus)
1:56 UT +1 Ori train 1 s (Cassiopeia)
2:22 UT +1 STA (Andromeda)
2:26 UT +1 Ori train 1 s (Cassiopeia)
2:26 UT -2 blue yellow Ori train 3 s (Pisces)
2:37 UT 0 Ori train 2 s (Cepheus)
2:40 UT +1 Ori train 1 s (Ursa Minor)
3:14 UT 0 Ori train 1 s (Perseus)
3:16 UT +1 Ori train 1 s (Draco)
3:23 UT +1 Ori train (Perseus)
3:26 UT +1 Ori train 1 s (Cassiopeia)
3:46 UT +1 Ori train (Cepheus)
4:03 UT -1 Ori train 2 s (Cepheus)
4:21 UT -2 Ori train 3 seconds, flare, white (Ursa Minor)
4:41 UT +1 Ori train (Aries)
4:45 UT 0 LMI train 2 s (Ursa Minor)

Two special moments: at 3:28 UT within 2 seconds 2 Orionids of +3 and +4. 
And at 3:35 UT two Orionids within 20 seconds of magnitude +3.
I'm really curious if the Orionid activity stay's at a high level.
My hourly counts and other data of this night you'll find here:
http://umdb.urania.be/v2/obsview/view.php?id=4062
Orionid ZHR live curve: http://www.imo.net/live/orionids2008/

Best wishes,
Koen



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michel Vandeputte" <michelvandeputte at hotmail.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Orionids performed great!


> Hi all,
>
> I share the same impressions as Koen. Lots of bright meteors during the
> first intervals (started at 22:46 UT on October 19, stopped at 04:30UT 
> with
> a short break for cirrus clouds) with magnitudes up to -2. Many trains. At
> the end I had also the impression that the activity was slowing down a 
> bit;
> also the brightness of the meteors decreased. But this could be also the
> fact that the moon was interfering the observations much more...
>
> Long trains,
>
> Michel.
> Belgium
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Koen Miskotte" <koen.miskotte at versatel.nl>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:05 AM
> Subject: (meteorobs) Orionids performed great!
>
>
>> Hi,
>> Just back of my observing site to observe the Orionids. After a lot of
>> cirrus sky cleared partly in north western direction. In that direction I
>> had no cloud in my filed of view. I have not listen to my digital voice
>> recorder yet, but the Orionids were great, many bright ones  I have seen
>> between magnitude +1 and -2. I estimated 15-20 Orionids an hour with
>> limiting magnitudes between 5.7 and 5.4. During the last hour I had the
>> impression rates were slightly slowing down.
>> So American observers , go out and see if the show is goining on!
>> Best wishes and good luck!
>> Koen
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