Orionid Meteors Over Turkey

Meteors have been flowing out from the constellation Orion. This was expected,
as mid-October is the time of year for the Orionids Meteor Shower. Pictured
above, over a dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures over
three hours taken this past weekend from a town near Bursa, Turkey. The above
image shows brilliant multiple meteor streaks that can all be connected to a
single point in the sky just above the belt of Orion, called the radiant. The
Orionids meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from Comet Halley during
one of its trips to the inner Solar System. Comet Halley is actually responsible
for two known meteor showers, the other known as the Eta Aquarids and visible
every May. Next month, the Leonids Meteor Shower from Comet Tempel-Tuttle might
show an even more impressive shower from some locations.