2005 Orionid Meteor Shower
The Orionid meteor shower peak will be Friday morning in the early am with some potential activity after 11pm on Thursday night. Kronk's meteor/comet page is listing the maximum ZHR at: Oct. 21,2005 @ 08:13 UT or Friday, Oct. 22 at 2:13am MST. http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/october_radiants.html alp Orion rises at about 10/20/2005 11:24 MST or 10/21/2005 05:24 UTC. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
You might want to run that through your calculator again; I think you have already missed it. Norm Canopus56 wrote:
The Orionid meteor shower peak will be Friday morning in the early am with some potential activity after 11pm on Thursday night.
Kronk's meteor/comet page is listing the maximum ZHR at: Oct. 21,2005 @ 08:13 UT or Friday, Oct. 22 at 2:13am MST. http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/october_radiants.html
alp Orion rises at about 10/20/2005 11:24 MST or 10/21/2005 05:24 UTC.
- Canopus56 (Kurt)
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Other than a typo... (It is Friday,October "21st" at 2:13 AM), he got it right. Certainly we have not missed it yet, although the moon phase might make it a little less attractive as a target. Jo At 10:22 AM 10/20/2005 -0600, you wrote:
You might want to run that through your calculator again; I think you have already missed it.
Norm
Canopus56 wrote:
The Orionid meteor shower peak will be Friday morning in the early am with some potential activity after 11pm on Thursday night.
Kronk's meteor/comet page is listing the maximum ZHR at: Oct. 21,2005 @ 08:13 UT or Friday, Oct. 22 at 2:13am MST. http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/october_radiants.html
alp Orion rises at about 10/20/2005 11:24 MST or 10/21/2005 05:24 UTC.
- Canopus56 (Kurt)
Looks like it is a bad call anyway. The Moon is a few degrees off radiant. But, it might make for an entertaining astrophoto - a bright streamer streaking away from the Moon. - Canopus56(Kurt) --- Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote:
Other than a typo... (It is Friday,October "21st" at 2:13 AM), he got it right. Certainly we have not missed it yet, although the moon phase might make it a little less attractive as a target. Jo
At 10:22 AM 10/20/2005 -0600, you wrote:
You might want to run that through your calculator again; I think you have already missed it.
Norm
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