(meteorobs) extremely fast evening meteor

[Richard Taibi]

Very interesting Ed.  These casual observations demonstrate Yogi Berra's wisdom : 'You can observe alot by just watching' (the sky)!  Rich
> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:07:52 -0700
> From: edcannonsat at yahoo.com
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Subject: (meteorobs) extremely fast evening meteor
> 
> Last night (evening of 24/25 June) I saw as fast 
> a meteor as I've ever seen (based on what I can 
> remember).  It covered at least 20 degrees of sky
> in about half a second.  It was about second 
> magnitude and traversed the Big Dipper from right
> to left (north to west), moving horizontally.
> I didn't write down the time, but it was between
> 9:30 and 10:30 PM local (Central Daylight) time.
> 
> A night or two before that I saw a very short
> magnitude one meteor in Ophiuchus, centered on
> about RA 17:20, Dec +10.  It was two degrees 
> long at most.  After that, the next day, I saw
> Bob Lunsford's mention of the Ophiuchid meteors
> and so of course wondered if I might have seen
> one, although I didn't write down the direction.
> This one was in the evening also.
> 
> Both of these were seen from an exurban semi-
> rural location, Dripping Springs, Texas, where 
> I'm currently house-sitting for a week.
> 
> Clear, dark nights to all --
> 
> Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
> 
> 
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