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

[Paul Jones]

Thank you, Michel!  Will do and sorry for your LACK of lost sleep for the
ORIs...;o).  Hopefully, you will have cause to miss lots and lots of sleep
indeed for the Leonids and Geminids upcoming...;o)!  Do you have any
special plans for travelling at all to see them this year or just stay put
and hope for the best from Mother Nature?  Either way, best of luck to you
and to all of our European friends!

clear skies to all, Paul J in north Florida

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Michel Vandeputte <
michelvandeputte at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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: south
> 25 ORI
> 3 STA
> 1 EGE
> 1 LMI
> 9 SPO
> 39 total meteors
>
> 0515 - 0615 EDT (0915 - 1015 UT) LM: 6.2, 5% coastal cloud interruption,
> Facing: south
> 31 ORI
> 2 STA
> 1 LMI
> 1 TCA (tau Cancrid)
> 7 SPO
> 42 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: +2
> LMI: -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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