Only one Orionids meteor captured last night at 04:13 CDT (10:13 UTC) Oct 22. Here are the images for it. I used the Sony a7 with Rokinon 20mm T1.9 lens set to 25 sec, T2.8, ISO 160.
BTW, this is a prime example of why you don't necessarily have to set the aperture wide open to capture a dimmer meteor, even in bright LP skies. And you darn sure don’t need to crank up the ISO either.
3840 x 2560 4K image downscaled from full image
3840 x 2160 4K image crop from original
Nice catch Jack. Interesting how little red there is towards the end of the path, as you'd usually expect. Perhaps partly due to subtracting LP?
I'm glad I
didn't resist the temptation to set up the cameras last night (21/22 Oct). Turned out that there were some excellent clear spells, among a few bouts of sometimes quite thick cloud, so I was able to run the cameras from around local midnight for around 6 hrs in total, although I shut one down for about an hour during a very cloudy patch.
My overall impression was that the Orionids seemed more like they were at peak than the previous night (20/21 Oct). I observed 3 or 4 visually in total, but as is so often the case, it was not the major/peaking shower that was responsible for the most spectacular event.
It occurred at ~04:06:29 UT (05:06:29 local time/BST) in near perfect conditions, and I managed to capture it @ 32K ISO (about as high as I've been able to go when pointed down) with the 24/1.4 Sammy (my fears that going from 20mm to 24mm would seriously impact how many events the camera catches are pretty much gone), and really nice placement in the FOV IMO.
Both my wife and I visually observed the event as well, and I initially thought it may have been too high in the sky for the 24mm to catch, but it turns out it was not (by quite a margin!). Worst of all, when I found the event on UKMON and logged it, I managed to get the time wrong, and logged it with the wrong clip, so when I checked the footage I was convinced I'd missed it, but thankfully I double checked the time to make sure, and discovered my error!
My wife's recollection was that it was going the opposite direction - just goes to show how important it is to document events - memory/perception is really if ever accurate!
According to the UKMON analysis, it was another
sporadic of asteroidal origin (with an orbit taking it through the main belt of asteroids between Jupiter and Mars), from the west, although not slow enough to have a very red wake like some I've seen, this was a bit more golden/yellow. It was also fairly close @ around 200 km away (in terms of ground track to the event), and finished up a bit closer than it started which always helps.
Summary for Event
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Updated: 2022-10-22 10:27:53
shower ID -1 spo (Sporadic)
Lg 31.20° Bg 5.92° Vg 24.74km/s
mass 2.12478g, abs. mag -3.8
best visual mag -3.5
Path Details
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start -2.86° 51.53° 100.63km
end -2.23° 51.60° 70.29km
Orbit Details
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Semimajor axis 2.75A.U., eccentricity 0.81, inclination 5.08°, Period 4.56Y, LA Sun 208.43°, last Perihelion 2018-05-12
Here are a couple of the captures UKMON cameras caught from different locations:
It was nice to catch something bright with a camera as well as to actually see it (doesn't happen often either!), not least because the footage seems faithful enough compared to my memory of the event (my wife agrees too).
That said, in real life these events do seem bigger/brighter than they do when viewed on a monitor in my opinion - perhaps the answer is 8K or even 16K and a screen covering an entire wall, so the sky almost feels like it "envelopes" you.
Anyway, looking cloudy/rainy for the moment, but as always both cameras can be running in less than 10 minutes if needed..
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Leo S.
