(meteorobs) Recent meteor actibvity

[Paul Jones]

I just got in from a 30 minute casual watch from my driveway here in St.
Augustine and did surprisingly well, considering for the still pretty bright
moon light.  From 4:45 to 5:15 a.m. local time, I had 9 Orionids and 3
sporadics in the the 30 minutes.  One of the Orionids was a lovely zero
magnitude with a nice train.  Two other Orionids were second magnitude.
Limiting magnitude was around 5.5.  A well placed late October cold front
swept through yesterday and dried us out and cooled us off nicely, the temp
was 49 degrees F. The next few days look great!
The moon's got some waning to do and the Orionids have some picking up to
do, but not too shabby all told for two days before the predicted maximum.
I'll be out again in the morning with a more serious watch!

Clear skies, Paul in north Florida

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:37 PM, James Beauchamp <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>   Chris, Bill, and list,
>
> I compiled last night's hits here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKIXUivDmyo
>
> Hopefully, the fun will continue.
>
> Regards,
>
> James Beauchamp
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 10/19/11, Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Recent meteor actibvity
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 11:43 AM
>
>
> Similar results here. For the last week from one camera:
>
> October Ursa Majorid   OCU   3
> epsilon Geminid   EGE   17
> Orionid   ORI   77
> S Taurid   STA   13
> N Taurid   NTA   16
> Sporadic   SPO   54
>
> Total meteors: 180
>
> A number of the sporadics are shower members that were excluded by the
> single station radiant analyzer. These results are pretty much typical
> for what I see every year at this time. There have been some nice
> fireballs this week:
>
> http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43606
> http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43657
> http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43761
> http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43783
>
> Two of these were sporadic, two were Orionids. Again, pretty typical for
> this time of year.
>
> Chris
>
> *******************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
>
> On 10/19/2011 8:45 AM, cookewj at comcast.net<http://mc/compose?to=cookewj@comcast.net>wrote:
> > Over the past few days, our ASGARD systems here in the SouthEast and in
> New Mexico have detected meteors from 6 different showers: The Southern
> Taurids, associated with Comet Encke, the Orionids, associated with Comet
> Halley, the October Delta Aurigids, the October Ursae Majorids, the Chi
> Taurids, and the Epsilon Geminds. With this many showers going on, it is not
> surprising fireball rates should show a bump during this week.
> >
> > Orbital data for all these meteors are consistent with a cometary or main
> belt origin - there is nothing in the data that would indicate correlations
> with any known NEO.
> >
> > Link to orbit plots for past 6 days:
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111014.png
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111015.png
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111016.png
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111017.png
> >
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111018.png
> > http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111019.png
> >
> >
> > Also:
> >
> >
> >
> http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Watch%20the%20Skies/posts/post_1318960826447.html
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Cooke
>
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