WOW!!!
We (Darren and I)had an excellent night!
After a usual sky tour thru the 12" and the ED80 we hunted down Galaxies thru Fornax and Eridanus.
We had 10/10 Trans 10/10 seeing!!!!!!!!
Then the show started!
We sat back comfortably on our recliners as the meteors gave a great display. There were faint fast white ones every minute or so, then at least every 2 minutes was an amazing yellowish streak across the sky.
One in particular had us jump up out of our comfort to watch it as it went from Orion, under LMC, kept going and then finally fizzed out about 5 degrees above the SW horizon, leaving a trail the whole way. As the head faded, the end of the tail started to fade and then all the tail dissolved. The whole tail was visible for about 6 seconds!!!!!!!
By 2:30am we couldn't stand the minus 5 temperature any longer. We were frozen, and called it a night.
All up, we had a great observing time both thru the scopes and then the Orionid show
