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Re: (meteorobs) Northern England: Nov 17th, 22.50 UT
Hello Stuart and everyone,
Dismal news from the SW of England also, it has been raining all
evening, now stoped (01:40UT) but still overcast, we live in hope !
So, with not much traffic out of Japan and the east I thought I would
pick up Stewarts cue about memorable moments with which to occupy the
bandwidth a little :-)
One event in particular I will remember for a long time:-- 6 Leonids
in flight at the same time all pointing (ofcourse) back to the radiant.
They started within moments of each other, not simultaneous but too
quick to call within the second. Not fierballs, just nice bright,swift
yellow streaks! They left trails that persisted for a few sec. all
radiating out like the hands on a clock ( well, if you can imagine a
clock with 6 hands ! ) Wish list:- film for my camera !Bother!
Anyone in Europe got clear skies, what are you seeing ?
Anyone in UK got clear skies within a couple hrs drive of Bristol?
Best wishes,
Malcolm.
STUARTATK@aol.com wrote:
> 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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