(meteorobs) 2015 Orionids obs from north Florida - they're STILL going strong!!

[Michel Vandeputte]

Hi Paul! 

Nice and strong ORI  report again! 
Yes indeed: be out there tomorrow morning and finish the ORI - series for 2015!! 
I'll break my personal record in sleeping sessions around the ORI maximum period :-(( 

Clear skies, 



Michel Vandeputte
 

Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:34:01 -0400
From: jonesp0854 at gmail.com
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: (meteorobs) 2015 Orionids obs from north Florida - they're STILL	going strong!!

Greetings again all,    Good luck and Mother Nature stayed right with me this morning as I got in two more awesome hours of ORI observing after moonset.  The ORIs were still in full swing, as I was finally able to top 30 an hour for them, just as Norman stated they would be!    I had a tough choice to make this morning on where to watch from though. Should I go inland to the super dark sky potato field and risk more fog interruption?  Or should I stay at home with brighter skies and risk coastal cloud interruption?  Such a quandary...    After fretting over it for awhile, I decided that I was just too fatigued after all the lost sleep lately to drive yet another almost 40 MILES just to get fogged in.  So, I decided to journey up to the meteor roof (less than 40 FEET away) and takes my chances...;o).   Turns out I made the right choice.    Between 0415and 0615 EDT, I had an overall count of 81 more meteors with 56 of them being ORIs.  Not too shabby at all!  The two hours produced 25 and 31 ORIs for me.  Only a few coastal clouds intervened and they were not a severe problem at all. I am saying my sincere thank you's to the Lord for this, I assure you...;o).
    Here's the numbers:
Oct. 23/24, 2015 Observer: Paul Jones, Location: 5 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Florida, Elevation: 43 feet (30 feet above sea level and 13 feet up on my roof...;o)... Florida is just mighty flat, you know...;o)
0415 - 0515 EDT (0815 - 0915 UT) LM: 6.2, 5% coastal cloud interruption, Facing: south25 ORI3 STA1 EGE1 LMI9 SPO39 total meteors
0515 - 0615 EDT (0915 - 1015 UT) LM: 6.2, 5% coastal cloud interruption, Facing: south31 ORI2 STA 1 LMI1 TCA (tau Cancrid)7 SPO42 total meteors
Mags:
ORI: 0 (3), +1 (5), +2 (8). +3 (19), +4 (15), +5 (6)STA: +1 (1), +2 (1), +3 (2), +4 (1)EGE: +2LMI: -1 (1), +2 (1)TCA: +3 (1)SPO: 0 (1), +1 (1), +2 (1), +3 (5). +4 (6), +5 (3)
     The brightest meteor of the watch award went to the LMI (Leo Minorid) - a real beauty that left a long glowing train behind it in Auriga - NICE ONE...;o).            On the average, the ORIs were a bit brighter this morning than previous mornings and several of them left glittering trains behind them,  a couple lasting two or more seconds on the sky after the meteor burned out.  Overall, 35% of the ORIs left trains this morning.     The almost Full Moon will not set tomorrow morning until after 0500 EDT, so the dark window for the 2015 ORIs is down to just one hour plus some change.  I plan to be out for it anyway to complete the set.       It's been an awesome and memorable ride for them so far this year for me, albeit a bit of a challenge logistically... (But I simply wouldn't have had it any other way, anything else would have been just way too easy and mundane...;o).
More later... hopefully..., Paul

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