(meteorobs) Late Orionds Good Oct. 26 - Mathias, WVa

[George Gliba]

            Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
               Mathias, West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
                           Oct. 25/26, 2009

   We were lucky to have fairly good conditions on Monday morning to
look for some post maximum Orionids. I was able to get in two hours
of meteor observing, with mostly clear conditions and a few broken
clouds from 5:52 to 7:52 UT. The best meteor of the session was a -1
magnitude yellow Orionid with a 4 second train seen at 7:40 UT.
However, the average Orionid, of the 25 seen, was about 2.7 magn.
There was activity seen from both branches of the Taurids, and two
Leo Minorids & one Beta Cancrid was seen the second hour.


  Time (UT)      LM  %Obst. NTA STA ORI EGE NPX SPX BCN LMI SPO Total  

10/26 5:52-6:52  6.4  10%    2   2  14   2   1   0   0   0  11   32
10/26 6:52-7:52  6.3  15%    2   1  11   1   1   0   1   2   7   26


Magnitude Distributions (Oct.25/26, 2009 - 05:52-07:52 UT - LM=6.35)

    -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  total Ave.
NTA  0   0   1   0   2   1   0    4   2.8
STA  0   0   0   0   3   0   0    3   3.0
ORI  1   2   2   2  10   8   0   25   2.7
EGE  0   0   1   1   0   1   0    3   2.3
NPX  0   0   0   1   0   0   1    2   3.5
SPX  0   0   0   0   0   0   0    0   N/A
BCN  0   0   0   1   0   0   0    1   2.0
LMI  0   2   0   0   0   0   0    2   0.0
SPO  0   0   1   2   8   3   4   18   3.4

Clear Skies,
GWG