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(meteorobs) Northern England: Nov 17th, 22.50 UT
Hi All,
Oh dear... here in the north of England we're paying for this morning's
spectacle with a heavily overcast sky... not a gap to be found anywhere.
Further north and further east the sky is clear, frost tinkling on the ground,
but here it's devastatingly blank overhead... slight chance of clearer weather
before dawn, but we'll see...
So, memories of this morning's wonders: a fireball which crossed 40 degrees of
sky, magnitude -6 at least, a brilliant, biting electric blue colour, ending
in a stunning flash and leaving behind a ghostly, glowing trail which survived
the attention of upper atmosphere winds for ten minutes, twisting, contorting
and dancing in slow motion in the dark as it drifted to the east... a
wonderous -4 green meteor, flaring four times before sputtering out... flashes
of blue and green above the clouds... standing, open mouthed, watching two
zero magnitude meteors skip away from Leo simultaneously, at right angles to
each other... watching a satellite drifting through northern Cygnus and seeing
my own shadow in front of me, cast by a -8 violet-hued fireball as it lanced
through Orion's Belt...
Clear skies to you wherever you are...
Stuart Atkinson,
Cockermouth, UK.
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