(meteorobs) It must have been a Camelopardalid!

[Richard Kramer]

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I was just taking the dog for his last walk of the night. At around 
03:50 GMT (23:50 EDT) I was heading back towards home, with, as 
usual, my eyes on the sky rather than the ground (too dark to see 
much of the ground anyways). While walking generally southwest and 
gazing somewhere between Gemini and Leo, an enticingly slow, greenish 
white, magnitude -2 meteor cruised from due north toward a point on 
the southerly horizon a bit west of due south.It passed by the 
western edge of Gemini. There was a faint train of a few fractions of 
a second. The meteor's path traced back to the north roughly through 
the North Star. It became visible a little south of a point due west 
of the bowl of the big dipper and extended well past Gemini to a 
point about due east of Orion's knees. I'd estimate that it traversed 
well over 45 degrees of sky, perhaps nearly 60 degrees. It brightened 
to magnitude -3 during the last few degrees of travel. Because of 
it's steady brightness, extreme slowness, and wonderfully long track, 
I'd rank it as one of the most beautiful meteors I've ever seen!

Unfortunately, I've accumulated too much of a sleep deficit over the 
past few days. As tired as I am, it would be pointless to go back out 
to attempt some formal observing. I'll have to be content with 
this  isolated, but spectacular, anecdotal bit of good fortune.

Richard