Kevin I know how hard it is get such a speccy meteor perfectly in the frame ( my mate barry got a very nice geminid once - but half the meteor is outside of the fov LOL) its like winning the lottery
and yes it must of been a sporadic, but with it coming from the w/n/w in the early evening there is a slight chance it was some sort of re-entry of space junk, a bolt nut/washer/screw or something like that heheh
- what magnitude and colour was it to the eye - as bright as Venus?
Those meteors you have in the orion shots are the ones we typically get, if any, too.
here is one of my all time favourites - this guy got a nice meteor in his comet shot on film (and M31) - very impressive! what are the odds?
http://www.northwest-landscapes.com/...bradfield.html
Kearn