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

[george]

Paul,

You are the undisputed Orionid champion this year, for North America at least.  I believe your 
consistent results. They indicate a flat maximum from Oct. 21-24.   In the past I have seen good 
Orionid rates on the 25th as wellI.  I saw 20 Orionids an hour in 1998 from West Virginia on the 
morning of October 25th (LM=6.4) that year.  

We had to come back to Maryland from WVa on Wednesday, which is why my observing stopped.  
Somehow I have become spoiled by dark skies, and seldom meteor observe meteors in Greenbelt 
anymore because of the worsening light pollution.

Starry Skies,
GWG


On 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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