Orpington Astronomical Society

Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Rick on Oct 18, 2022, 16:02:19

Title: Orionids and others
Post by: Rick on Oct 18, 2022, 16:02:19
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.

(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10004/Orionids_2022-10-17_stack.jpg)
Link to image on O.A.S. Gallery (http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/displayimage-2274-_Orionids_2022_October_17_18_.html)

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:

(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10004/Orionids_2022-10-17_radiant_plot.png)
Title: Re: Orionids and others
Post by: Rick on Oct 22, 2022, 23:22:31
Given the weather forecast for the next few nights, there's not much chance I'll catch many more this year... Oh well.
Title: Re: Orionids and others
Post by: Rick on Oct 26, 2022, 10:49:11
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.