Orionids Meteor Shower

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Went out this morning 4:30 to almost 5:30
Was on the Oval in town and saw perhaps 12 Orionids.
I will see if the internal alarm wakes me up for tomorrows show, like it did this morning !

[Outbackmanyep]

Originally Posted by cookie8

Perfect condition this morning 3am. Did not see any meteor for 35mins. Set the DSLR with 18mm lens on burst mode 30sec each. Pointed towards Canes Major.Checked them afterwards but not a single meteor recorded out of 200 shots.
Why!?? NOT HAPPY

My thoughts are, the meteors weren't bright enough and were too fast to catch on camera......as i found out myself! It's more a job for low light video camera or image intensified camera systems.....

Keep a good eye out tomorrow morning!

Don't count just the bright ones, there were numerous fainter ones coming from the radiant as well, so if you have dark skies just keep that in mind! Good stuff guys!

BEST TIMES from my records 3:00am to 4:30am!

[Octane (Humayun)]

OBMY,

What would be the best part of the sky to point a camera and lens?

I went out last night and took a whole series of images, but, I haven't checked my exposures yet for any trails.

Regards,
Humayun

[CoombellKid]

I looked out the window from my bed, and saw a Sat heading north-ish
to south-ish, to lazy to get up as I could start to see the dawn almost
begining to break. The Sat was bright and I thought it might of been the
ISS. Any takers on a comformation of my in bed observation, would of
been around 5-5:30am-ish

Cheers,CS

[badchap]

I was out for a bit over an hour, but went in at around 3.15..saw 2 nice bright definites, orange, fast moving and one of those had a nice long streak of a train.. and another 4 or so that I thought were maybes.
and 2 other nice sporadic meteors.

[Coen]

Went out from about 3:45am to around 4:10 local time. Saw a total of 2 so disappointed as my 12 yr old daughter wanted to look too. Got her up but she missed seeing any.

Still there are the Leonids in November.

[bkm2304 (Richard Brown)]

Was out yesterday morning (22nd). Saw 4 Orionids and a "random". The Orionids were very fast and left a faint trail. It was very clear and Capella was blazing away to the North. It is fascinating to know that not that far above me was dust from Halley's Comet entering the atmosphere.

Richard

[wolfthun]

Up this morning (22nd) between 2.30 and 3.15 and saw a total of 11 plus another 5 sporadics. Three of the Orionids could probably be classed as fireballs. The brightest of these showed green and left a trail visible for about three minutes.

It seemed to me that the Orionids came in batches. I had to wait about 10-15 min before I saw the first and then saw four within a couple of minutes, another wait of 10 minutes or so and another batch of three or four. Is that the norm for the Orionids or just anomalies in the short period I was out there?

[Outbackmanyep]

Hi all, i didn't get up this morning, i slept through 3 alarms!

From my observations i noticed that they did come through in batches, but still counted about 23/hr from the morning of the 21st.

The Orionids i imagine were not always "just" the big bright ones but many fainter ones which also came from the radiant were also taken down.

Its all good practice for the Leonids & Geminids coming up soon!

Cheers!

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

I have never seen or know what to expect to see with these nights other than the normal although greatly illuminated shooting star, looked very pleasing. I actaully view them between 1 - 1:30am as I had to get up early for work, saw about 6 of them during this time.

The only other thing I saw which I felt could have been illusions was specks of flashlights appearing. They were so quick I couldn't focus my attention quick enough. They almost looked like shower coming directly towards me no streaks across the sky.

Is this what I expect to see or is it more typical bright flashes across the sky?