Did you see your meteor sat night/sun morning to Mike? wow!
I videotaped the footage and eye witness accounts from channel 10 - i replayed it a few times - they say that it was heading S/W - if you look carefully there is only one faint star looking thing visible in the wide view over brightly lit suburbia looking S/W - and that was of course Venus at mag -4.6ish I reckon - I guesstimate roughly from that comparison that the brightest outburst may of been anything up to at least the high teens of negative mag - maybe even - 20 !! naaaa!!? Venus hardly registers on the footage tho
there is online vid from abc now as well - right hand top corner of page
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...2/s1523140.htm