So this morning at work I was able to set up my D90 for some timelapse/ meteor shots.
As I was setting up and taking a few test shots, angling the camera and looking up I heard a ( hard to describe) faint whoosing sound and thought it was some sprinklers starting up - we have a lot of these on the golf course
-. Then pretty much at the same time this brilliant large(ish) meteor shot across my field of view.
It was white/orange(ish) in colour, went for ages ( in my stunned sense of course) and left a very distinguished trail of vapour(?) which also lasted for a while ( I guess maybe a second )."Smoke like vapour trails, dispersing rapidly with a very faint glow"
It wasn't sprinklers going off and cant think of any other sound that could have caused the sound I heard. It was dead quiet before and after. I have read about people hearing meteorites while they race through the sky, but I would like some confirmation..........
It streaked across the sky near ( I THINK) Arcturus - Spica that area. Using my fist as a measure for length it was about 8 fists wide ( if not longer) as for Alt probably at the height of Spica and going from North to West at about 02:15hrs.
THEN later after setting the camera up for sunrise with the planets in a different location, I was walking back to go inside when ( as I always do, looking up ) had a fantastic view of a similar 'meteor' going the same way and in the same area as the earlier one ( no sound this time). It was shorter ( in length) but same colour, vapour trail and heading. Time was about 05:00hrs and I couldn't tell if it was higher or lower than the first ( my guess is higher).
It did seem to be smaller ( nucleus wise), but just as intense.
I had a look at starmap pro on ye ol' iPhone but none of the meteor showers were in the vicinity or radii in the same direction.
Well thats my first blurb on the Observational ( jeez thats a long word) forum.......
So I'm guessing they weren't a meteor but possibly some space debris coming down.
Still looking through my time lapse shots to see if I caught some real meteors!!!!!!
Thanks for reading!
Cheers
Bartman
P.S. if anyone in Perth saw these as wel let me know......or clarify what I saw or
heard!