For all those thinking it's to late to see a good meteor display, think again. I got up at 3:00am to a surprise. Many meteors leaving smoke trains.
The brightest one was at 3:30am maybe -9!!!
. I was looking down at the ground when I started cursing "
who turned the #!*#!! light on!" The entire lawn lit up like moonlight. I had time to look up and catch the end of it as it surged in brightness again, leaving a train that lasted about eight mins to the naked eye and still visable in binos 20mins later! It was heading straight towards Crux and not going as fast as I had expected.
I guess I saw about 6 meteors brighter then -1, most of them were whitish/blue. The fainter ones seemed to be more yellowish.
Their velocity is listed as 66km/sec (the same as the eta-Aquarids in May this year) but now having seen both showers, I think that the Orionids are slower by about 10%. I am curious if other members agree.