Orionids and others

[Rick]

The autumn meteor season is ramping up, and when the sky is clear tere are quite a few to be captured. Here's what my Global Meteor Network camera captured last night.


Link to image on O.A.S. Gallery

This image includes 20 Orionids (ORI), 7 epsilon Geminids (EGE), 7 Leonis Minorids (LMI), 4 Southern Taurids (STA), 3 chi Taurids (CTA) and 33 sporadics (at least according to the preliminary analysis). Here's a chart produced during that analysis:

[Rick]

Given the weather forecast for the next few nights, there's not much chance I'll catch many more this year... Oh well.

[Rick]

The nights of 22nd and 23rd were almost completely clouded out, but last couple of nights (24th and 25th) have (surprisingly, given the weather) produced quite a good collection of meteors, a fair few of which have been Orionids. So far, over the last couple of weeks, my camera's caught over 70 meteors that preliminary analysis determined were Orionids.