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
October Draconids Report
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
Orionid Report
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.
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.