Astronomy every Thursday
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100 meteors were detected by the meteor group in February 2019, 70 of these were sporadic and the remainder from minor showers.
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October saw us identifying 308 meteors from 32 different showers, the October Draconids and the Orionids being the most interesting.
The brightest meteor was -3.7 vMag
21 October Draconids were identified in the charts below you can see they are a very narrow peak, suggesting a narrow stream of dust the Earth is passing through. The average magnitude was 1.
Ground map of the Draconids showing the meteors that were triangulated with the Nemetode group, our observations are the ones detected by the 'Dartford' Observatory
We identified 53 Orionids, peaking on the 21st October and an average magnitude of 1
Below is a 15 minute video of all 308 meteors verified in October.
Ground map of the Orionids showing the meteors that were triangulated with the Nemetode group, our observations are the ones detected by the 'Dartford' Observatory.
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The society run an 'almost automated' meteor camera, if you want to be part of the meteor team checking the results every morning then please speak to the coordinator - Janice.
A total of 535 Meteors were captured, with 340 of them being Perseid meteors. Below is a video of the 20 brightest meteors during August.
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Summary of the report sent to the Nematode meteor group.
The Nematode group were able to match 11 of our meteors with observations from other observers in the group producing these orbits.
![Perseid orbits 2018[3450]](https://crayfordmanorastro.com/wp-content/gallery/meteor/Perseid-orbits-20183450.png)
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