the ones I saw were faint - and most through the binos so there would have been no way to see them normally. Alan called me this morning to say he only saw a few last night/this morning - he was keen
How about donating a dollar to hOughy's "Relay for Life" for every Orionid you see this year? It wouldn't make much difference to the amount in your bank account, ( and it's tax deductable if you see more than 1), but it would make a considerable difference to the amount he manages to raise, and it's all in an excellent cause. Just click on the Relay for Life under his signature to find out how to donate.
How about donating a dollar to hOughy's "Relay for Life" for every Orionid you see this year? It wouldn't make much difference to the amount in your bank account, ( and it's tax deductable if you see more than 1), but it would make a considerable difference to the amount he manages to raise, and it's all in an excellent cause. Just click on the Relay for Life under his signature to find out how to donate.
I've been watching off and on for the meteors since about 1:00 a.m. Saw a very bright meteor, at 1:44, which left a trail for one or two seconds, appeared to be geenish, to the left of Orion, another at 1:53, then 2:13, and another at 2:15. The last one, at 2:15, was very low in the horizon, maybe 25-20 degrees, and way below Orion. That meteor was a slow one, the slowest meteor I can remember ever seeing! It was glowing brightly and last about two or three seconds. I wish that I could stay outside watching for meteors without any interruptions, but work duty calls ......
Here is few brightest Orionids captured with automated camera from Western Sydney. Capture rate 12.5fps, camera - GStar 4x Frame integration, Alt 43Deg Az about 300 Deg. Visible duration 1.36, 1.20 and 1.28 sec. AVI's stacked and convered to Jpg
Well up here in the NT we saw 20 Orionids in the hour between 4:15am and 5:15am Sunday morning. About 5 of them were bright & left brief trains
All were notable for their great speed & blueish white color.
Well worth the early morning effort for a fellow club member & I, from our beachside location.
Between approximately 02:50 and 03:45, I saw 12. Of that number, 5 were lengthy and bright, of those 5, three left trails for a very short time. None displayed any colour though!
The drawback was high humidity and thus plenty of reflected light from Sydney - I am not far from the Royal National Park so generally dark skies. They were not as dark as normal so I may have missed a few. Tiredness won at about 3:50 so to bed I went.
Each cleary came from the radiant and one false event of a potential direct-on observation...a bright flash then nothing. Sadly, the same flash re-appeared towards the East, and then again further along. Aircraft...where is my Stinger? HA!
Its the first time that clouds have not ruined observing conditions for such an event!
I saw one at 2.36am, just before I shut up shop for the night.
So I'm satisfied with that.
The Leonids are next with a zhr of 20, then at a zhr of 120, The Geminids!!Yeehaa!
ive enjoyed being a member of the IIS orionids watch crew for 2007, it is nice making it a shared experience - great stuff everybody, and nice one Karl!
yeh its that time of year JJ - meteor season begins!
btw I have a new toy that will come in handy for recording counts audio wise altho its for other uses as well
this thing totally rocks! what an era we live in!
wow and yes thnx also! is that based on counts from radio obs? i'm not on ml of IAU.
i saw lots of mixed visual reports, some very good, some like ours - guess the moon ruined a fair bit of it?
wish it was the eta aquarids part of the stream was as active as this section i remember i used to take the, in hindsight, very decent eta shows of the late 90's for granted - i was a beginner and thought that was normal lol
i see the moons a 'pain in the eyes' even worse next year
Time to revive this thread !
Does anyone have reports of the Orionids over the past few mornings ?
I had great intentions of getting up early this morning, but had a few too many reds last night
Had a look between 1 & 2am this morning (UT+11), and saw quite a few. No count, sorry, but around 10-odd in the last half hour, including some bright ones. Quite good really!
Saw a very bright and slow moving one last night when I put the car away for the night at about 1am.
There was a break in the clouds and the rain (which we've had plenty off last couple of days).
Crossed sky from low in the east to way past the top of my house in a SSW direction over a period of about 2 second (was bright enough to light up the backyard) and left a glowing trail that lasted several seconds. Was heading kinda in the right direction.
PS I don't generally pay much attention to meteor showers , just coincidence and happen chance that I was outside at just the right time to see this one.
Last edited by Ian Robinson; 22-10-2008 at 06:25 PM.
It's raining here!
