Orionid Meteor Shower 10/22/2017

  Last night after a 4 hour drive across the state, I stepped out on to the back deck to give a listen for owls.  With temperatures lingering in the mid-60's I decided to pull up a chair and crack open a beer and put some real effort into owling.  After a few minutes as I was staring at the clear moonless sky, I remembered that the Orionid Meteor shower was near its modest 20/hour peak.  So I grabbed the camera, cable release and tripod to do some serious multi-tasking. 

    The meteor in the above photos was a sporadic rather than an Orionid.  Its direction of travel would have been from the lower right corner of the frame had it been an Orionid.

  This one was a Orionid (I rotated and cropped the photo for composition's sake).

A burning grain of dust cast off of Comet Halley