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Hi John,
the short answer would be, i don't see why not!
last year the Orionids put on an surprising amazing and unexpected/unpredicted display. there was some reports last year from NZ!! of sightings in the 100's, from experienced observers i know of well.
With many bright members, from memory could of been an average of +2 magnitude!, I think.
There was some fisheye low light video imaging done from Melbourne by a member of this forum, that was very impressive.
The threads are here somewhere.
The moon situation looks kind and it nicks off in time for the potential show(s) which would be around 3 am to 4 am when the radiant is highest (EDIT: thats not hard and fast, last year i think the best times was around midnight, 11pm, from lucky forum members reports last year, depends on the peaks, but the moon is up then).
whether this one would be like last year *who knows* I havent seen one explanation of lasts year 3 day long unusual peak yet still ..(it goes for 2 or 3 days broad maxima, being the days either side of the 21st i would assume, with smaller maxima's within) ..or any predictions for this year outside of normal routine predictions
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