2007 Orionid Meteor Shower

[adrenalynn]

I captured another along a very similar radiant last night, again with the nebula as a backdrop. Seems like a hot-spot. I'm only shooting 20x7min, so 140min total shutter open time. In all my years of astrophotography, thousands of photos, I've only caught three at random. So there definitely has to be some shower radiating along that path.<br /><br />---<br />My seeing of the shower on the night of the 21st wasn't as good numbers-wise (about 11/hr), but we had three negative apparent magnitudes that left a visible ionized trail behind for several seconds. Definitely the best Orionids for me in my memory! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font>  (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.]  Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[vegas171]

I have some footage of this year meteor shower, it was taken at Lake Mead, NV.<br /><br />http://www.metacafe.com/watch/893620/orionids_meteor_shower/

 

[MeteorWayne]

I noticed at least one of those meteors (at ~ 16-17 seconds) was not an Otionid; It was possible a southern Taurid. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Take this, Joe Rao <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />From the November NAMN (North American Meteor Network) Notes:<br /><br />1. Orionids Come Back Strong in 2007...<br /><br />It was suggested this year's Orionids might match last year's exceptional<br />activity, and that appears to be the case. As of the date of this issue,<br />there have been 1597 Orionids reported to the NAMN in just over 126 hours of<br />observing time (Teff). That's an average for the whole "moonth" between Full Moons of 12.7 per hour. <br />This included a considerable amount of off peak<br />activity.<br /><br />The vast majority of the Orionids were counted during the 4 day peak<br />period from the 20-23 of October. For that time frame, 1515 Orionids<br />appeared in 65.31 hours, an average of over 23 per hour. That's mighty<br />impressive, since due to location and moonlight, many observations took<br />place with only fair limiting magnitudes, and the long term average ZHR is<br />only 23 using an LM of +6.5!<br /><br />The International Meteor Organization's (IMO) on-the-fly Orionid graph<br />(which is also raw data, with no Quality Control yet applied) shows peak<br />ZHR's of 78 +/-4 and 77 +/-6 at 00:44 and 08:21 UT on the 22nd respectively.<br />It can be viewed here:<br /><br />http://www.imo.net/live/orionids2007/<br /><br />The information will probably be updated if you visit now, but it does<br />verify that this was indeed a much above normal year. Based on reports<br />received so far by both organizations, it appears that the Orionids were<br />once again brighter than usual, supporting the Jupiter resonance effects,<br />and the old age of the meteoroids (referred to last month) that we sampled on our path through the Halley's Comet stream.<br /><br />Such enhanced activity might continue for the next year or two, although<br />next year will be much more challenging to watch due to a half lit moon very near the radiant. <br></br> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>