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Meteor sighting
Hi, was on my balcony during Earth Hour tonight enjoying the moon with my new Dob. At one point the spotlights from the music festival in Centennial Park caught my eye. While cursing this source of light pollution, I just happened to be looking in the right direction to see a beautiful orange meteor travelling from the south towards the east. It flared, nearly disappeared, flared again, nearly disappeared, then flared again as it broke into a number of fragments before disintegrating.
Ironic, huh? If those stupid spotlights hadn't distracted me, I never would have seen the meteor.
Morton
BTW, I came in and told my wife what I'd seen, and she said: "Are you sure it wasn't more Russian space junk?!"
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