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brian nordstrom
27-05-2012, 08:50 AM
:)Hi all , I was wondering if anybody was out at 5.30am this morning ( sunday ) and happened to be looking north east ?
:hi:.
Anyway at 5.27am I was walking back to the stores after my night shift up here at the DLNG shutdown .
I was heading north east and at about 85 degrees from the horizon due north , a bright light , that at first I thaught was a plane taking off from Darwin airport with its landing lights on ( 20km'd north of the DLNG ) as I see them all the time . But this had a long tail moving east at a leasurely pace .
But no it was a really bright metior comming is at a steep angle ( about 45 degrees) from northeast down torwards east south east . yippe !! :eyepop:.
As I watched it break up right in front of me in slow motion as a bright orange colour , there was no one around to see it but me .
Anyway at about 15 degrees above the eastern horizon it broke into maybe 10 pieces and these were all bright white , splitting from the origonal orange mass .( still in the steep 45 degree dive )
This seemed to happen in slow motion over probably 20 seconds right in front of me . :thumbsup:. Awsome , not something you see every night .
Naked eye observing is still alive in my books .
So if any one else spotted this , perhaps we can triangulate its landing position and ,,,:question: there will be some metiorites to be found , just looking at its path thru our atmosphere .
Let us know .
Brian , off to bed now .

brian nordstrom
29-05-2012, 08:25 AM
:shrug: Not a 1 aye?
To bad it was a beauty , forever etched into my mind . It is .
Brian.

Suzy
31-05-2012, 08:48 AM
Hi Brian :hi:
What a fantastic experience you lucky person you! :eyepop: I'm so envious!
It sounds like you experienced a fireball. :D
Apparently sometimes you can hear meteorites (I have once), sounds like a chip packet opening or bacon sizzling.

I can't help you with what it was, I just wanted to share in your excitement and give you a black eye because you got to see it and I didn't. :mad2::help::lol:

Hey! I just had a thought,:question: you should consider using your nicely descriptive post of this event as a memoir.

P.S. I think most people are busy at the moment sorting themselves out for the Venus transit, so I wouldn't be surprised if some threads don't get some attention this week. :)

Les Kurma
01-06-2012, 03:49 PM
Saw a fireball last summer.
Was out in my backyard doing a bit of observing on Jupiter.
Out of the night sky, one fireball,the size of a full moon camping from nowhere,moving very fast east to west,almost horizontal.
It was glowing amber orangy and was gone before you could say, what the heck!
The amazing thing was,there is no sound,no rumbling or any sonic boom.
To these day, I am still wondering, just what exactly, was the object,blazing it's way across the night sky in such incredible speed.
To me,it is definitely of alien origin.if it is a space rock, it must be at a considerable distance away.

brian nordstrom
04-06-2012, 08:07 PM
:thumbsup: Thanks Suzie , how do I save this post as a Memoir ? Yea It was a cool thing to see , luckily I was looking in the right direction to see it in its entirety .
Ha ha mate you gotta come up north here for a viewing holiday to give me the black eye :lol: . I will supply you all with a scope ..:thanx:.
Looking forward to the partial eclipse tonight , man aint we being spoilt for choice at the moment .
Brian.

brian nordstrom
04-06-2012, 08:09 PM
:D you are right there Les , they are spectular , as I said mine was orange as well , but I forgot to mention it was silent as yours was ..:question:, even as it broke up into many smaller white pieces ,, cool .
Brian.

Suzy
05-06-2012, 09:25 PM
Hi Brian,

Just copy and paste your post from here into a word document. Or anywhere you could print it off. If you don't have word, email doc perhaps? Print it and pop it in with your other observing notes.
I think this is a prize worthy obs report for keepers.:D
You don't want to let go of this memory! ;)

And yes- spoiled we are at the moment, such a busy week. A comet would round off this week nicely. :D And if you see one and I don't, that's two black eyes that I owed you.:P

brian nordstrom
12-06-2012, 12:50 PM
:lol: ,:rofl:
night shift is over ,ye ha!!! ,,
,,,and just for that Suzy I will take out my 25x100 binos out and search the western horizon at dusk for the next few nights ..:question: , yes a comet will be good , but not the 2nd black eye :thumbsup:.. :D.
Brian.