(meteorobs) Taurid activity 30/31 october 2015

[Paul Jones]

Awesome, Maurizio!  Thank you indeed for sharing.  I sent you a friend
request on my late wife's Facebook account (which was also mine, too - just
has her name on it).  Best of luck going forward - I'm getting excited...

Clear skies, Paul J in north Florida

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Maurizio Eltri <maurizio.eltri at libero.it>
wrote:

> 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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