(meteorobs) Taurid activity 30/31 october 2015

[Maurizio Eltri]

I have posted on Facebook a video of a fireball 
"South taurid" captured last night:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002777948012

Maurizio Eltri
Venice, Italy




At 11:20 31/10/2015, you wrote:
>Hello!
>Last night (30/31 oktober 2015) I could observe 
>meteors between 22:28 and 00:32 UT. I actually 
>wanted to go to bed but after a look at the 
>stars it turned out that the heavy cirrus cover 
>earlier that evening was moving away. Of course 
>there was plenty of moonlight, but the goal was 
>to see if the Taurids were active again just as 
>in 1981, 1988, 1995 (during Leonid expedition), 
>1998 (during Leonid expedition) and 2005.
>Well, the Taurids activity seems to be on course to another “swarm year”.
>I just  processed the observations of last 
>night. I observed between 22:28 and 00:32 UT 
>(with a 2-minute break in de second hour).
>The limiting magnitude decreases from 5.7 to 
>5.4, due to the rising moon and also re-emerging 
>very thin cirrus in the second hour. I looked at 
>50 degrees altitude in north-northwesterly 
>direction, this also to keep the moon out of the 
>field. After looking at the pictures of my all 
>sky camera it shows that I have observed just in 
>a good period, because after ending the observations more cirrus appeared.
>
>30/31 October 2015 between 22:28 and 23:28 UT, 5.6 lm
>For 1.00 hours of effective observation time I 
>saw 9 meteors of which 5 were Taurids. The best 
>meteor was after two minutes after starting the 
>observation. A orange Taurid of magnitude 0 in 
>Cygnus. Ten minutes later a +1 Tauride in 
>Hercules. I saw in this period respectively magn. 0, +1, +2, +2 and +3 Taurids.
>
>30/31 October 2015 between 23:28 and 00:32 UT, 5.4 lm
>For 1.03 effective observation time I observed 6 
>meteors, of which 4 Taurids. These were of 
>brightness magnitude +4, -2, +4, +3. The 
>magnitude -2 Tauride was very beautiful, typical 
>orange and moved from Cameliopardalis to the Big 
>Dipper. At was also captured with my all sky 
>camera. The -2 Taurid appeared 10 seconds after a +4 Taurid.
>
>Also did a quick ZHR.calculation. Please do not 
>take too seriously the outcome, after a Lm 5.5 
>too low to really get reliable results. It is 
>also reflected in the deviation. I find respectively:
>1st hour    ZHR 11.58 ~ 5.18
>2nd hour   ZHR  9.56 ~ 4.78
>In addition, a population index r value of 2 was adopted, and a cp of 1.2.
>The ZHR is clearly higher than normal, I usually 
>end up at 5 in normal Taurids years.
>
>My all sky camera captured some bright Taurids 
>the last week. Also my two CAMS systems recorded plenty Taurids.
>
>Hope we have some clear nights in de coming two or three weeks.
>
>good luck everyone and best regards, Koen
>
>
>
>
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