[Stonius (Markus)]

Maybe it's naive of me - I've seen a few meteors in my time - mostly incidentally as a result of observing other stuff. I've heard that their colours are supposed to be tell-tale signs of their compositions, but honestly, I've only ever really seen them as white-ish.

Reports of colour I'd always put down to fanciful/inflated reports of faint tinges of pastel hues that didn't excite me much.

Then a couple of nights ago I saw a bright (~mag -3) meteor that was a deep, deep saturated neon green like you would see at a fireworks display. (Moving from Zenith towards the southeast horizon at around 7:15-ish).

I couldn't believe the intensity of the colour. Is that normal?

Maybe I should take this meteor watching thing a little more seriously?

Markus