(meteorobs) October meteors seen Oct 5/6...

[Esko Lyytinen]

Hi,

There was some weak OCA activity during the night Oct 5/6 .
In the Finnish fireball-group cameras we captured about a dozen OCA 
meteors, that is about one tenth of all the observed meteors during this 
night. There was two multistation OCA meteors in these. The radiants 
fitted within a fraction of a degree on the sky, to the 2005 derived 
radiant.
There was also some DAU activity and some early Orionids.
No definte early Draconids was observed, there may have one or at most a 
few.

Esko

From: Pierre Martin<pmartin at teksavvy.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) October meteors seen Oct 5/6...

> Hi all,
>
> I was out observing last night at Bootland Farm (Oct 5/6 2010 for an
> hour centered around 01UT or 9pm EDT), and I saw/plotted a few
> possible candidates for October Camelopardalids.  They seemed to line
> up perfectly with the radiant position indicated in Bob Lunsford's
> weekly outlooks.
>
> Interestingly, a couple of meteors *might* be early Draconids.  Need
> to review my plots to check this.
>
> Even more interestingly, something seemed to be going on with the
> Delta Aurigid radiant!  I saw a handful of long and very swift
> earthgrazers that lined up with that radiant, which lurked just 7
> degrees or so from the horizon!  This was certainly the most
> surprising aspect of my short session.
>
> After one hour, encroaching clouds forced me to sign off.  On my way
> out, it cleared up again but I wasn't able to stay due to a busy
> workday the next morning.  Full report will be submitted soon, but did
> anyone else notice these meteors?
>
> I'm looking forward to monitoring the skies for any Draconids these
> coming nights :)
>
> - Pierre
>