Friday, October 30, 2009

Oct 30 - Orionids still there

Orionids - the bright one on the left and the tiny one on lower right.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Orionids in Singapore Oct ( 19/20, 21/22* 13/14, 15, 16,17/18 18/19 )

Oct 22 2009.
Close to dawn - x2 Ori 06:17:01, 06:17:32
ORI - 5 am bin
ORI - As the radiant continues to climb, ORI appears in southerly facing camera
FOV after 1 AM
Oct 21/22 (0 hrs - 06:0am local time ) - x20 ORI, x7 SPO, x1 oct, x1 ocu
Sky was cloudy most of the time. The highlite of the night was a visual detection of moderate speed electric blue tear drop shaped meteor around 10:58 magnitude -4 or brighter bearing AZ=200 elevation ~ 20-30. I was standing by my window looking out and saw this nice meteor coming down at 60 degree. Video system was on but no detection - blocked by the building.

UT* format
2009 Oct 21

16hr: x1
17 hr: x3
18 hr:x2
19 hr:x0
20 hr:x5
21 hr:x4
22 hr:x5

Youtube of our cloudy sky meteors
Oct 19/20 - Orionids finally return in sizable number
Radiant plot of individual Ori ( above), red portion actual path
and the composite images ( minus those with heavy cloud background) below.


UT* (ORI) Oct 19 2009
16:57
17:11,17:14
18:11, 18:32,18:24,18:54,18:56
19:06,19:25,19:52
20:03,20:05,20:15,20:31
21:19
22:07,22:10
( total : x19 ORI, X7 SPO, x1 OcU?)
F0.8 3.8mm
Align CenterPlotting only the radiant verified x 6 Orionids Oct 19 am.
( total : x6 Orionids, x5 others)
Finally orionids showing up in small numbers.
Sirius and Canopus dotted in

this composite stacked image .
Time stamps (hr:min:sec) of the six AM orionids
to give you a feel of when and how bright/dim they were
Oct 19 2009
02:15:46
03:03:22
04:51:38
04:52:37
05:17:15
06:04:04
Some typical sporadic meteors creating tiny dashes in the sky.
Oct 18

Oct 17 - evening a nice sporadic meteor with multiple flares flashed past Jupiter,
while another slow moving one 'dashed' near
the lower bottom frame.

Oct 16 - x2 SPO (note Jupiter at the extreme right )Oct 15'2009 x2 SPO

Oct 13/14 , Sirius at top centre frame
Lone Orionid (top) out of the total 1+4 meteors detected.
Ori 1/5=20% , SPO 3/5=60% , Taurid 1/5= 20%
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