Bright Meteor

[Astrobits]

Driving home from the Bristol Astro Soc meeting last night ( 25th Nov ) saw a bright meteor through the windscreen. Must have been -6 ish, much brighter than Venus at max. Time about 21:50 approx due south and vertical from my perspective. Unfortunately it is not easy to do a decent observation whilst driving on the motorway

Nigel

[John]

Well spotted Nigel - I missed that one !

 

 

[Alien 13]

Perhaps someone should develop a proper astro dash cam 

Alan

[Alfian]

That was a good one to catch Nigel, well done. I was out with the dogs at about 7.40pmm last night and we live in a fairly dark spot with no street lights. A couple of times I stopped, turned my head torch off and gazed up, much to the puzzlement of the dogs I reckon. I saw a flash of what I initially assumed must be a meteor south easti-sh  (Pisces?) running 2 o'clock to 8' oclock  kind of angle, but then dismissed it as maybe a reflection from the frame of my specs' (it happens) but then a minute later saw another, not quite so bright. Neither were remotely as bright as -6 but something must have been happening up there.

[Astrobits]

1 hour ago, Alien 13 said:

Perhaps someone should develop a proper astro dash cam 

Alan

Yeah! Been thinking for some time about getting a dash cam. Would have captured it then.

Nigel

[Putaendo Patrick]

1 hour ago, Alien 13 said:

Perhaps someone should develop a proper astro dash cam 

A recent fireball in Florida caught by a police dash cam:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38082752

 

[JeremyS]

Hello Nigel,

you should report your observation to the Armagh Observatory Fireball page: http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/fireballs/index.html

I realise it won't be very precise, given that you were driving, but it's still worth doing. When I looked just now at the fireball reports (http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fireballs/last10.pl), there were no other reports from last night.

Jeremy

[ChrisLX200]

Quite active in the early hours, I didn't catch that one on my ASC (I think) - maybe too far South, but caught plenty of others.

ChrisH

[Astrobits]

Jeremy... reported. Thanks for the suggestion and the link.

Nigel

[Astrobits]

Chris, I was wondering if anyone down here in the South West had an ASC going.

[ChrisLX200]

Gina may have caught it - much closer to you than I am.