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Originally Posted by tileys
Last night - taking solace from the heat in a friends pool, at appx 10:30pm I saw something I haven’t seen before while looking straight up.
Not far from Sirius which was high I saw a sudden bright light that got brighter in maybe half a second to rival even Sirius itself and then disappeared.
While pondering this I then saw - now that far from there another bright light that then moved off to my left - but only a few degrees, before disappearing.
I’m guessing these were meteors heading (esp the first one) more or less towards me. When I saw the one that didn’t move my immediate thought was perhaps a supernova but on balance - prob unlikely if it was so bright for only a fraction of a second ?
Thoughts ?
Have you ever seen something similar ? I’ve seen lots of shooting stars before but these (esp the first) seemed a bit different.
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Possibly what you saw was a Satellite reflecting the suns light
Similar to the Iridium Telecommunications satellites that where visible for a number of years,but no longer so as the new satellites of the same name have a different orientation and different solar panels.
If not satellites then your first explanation of face on meteorites would fit the description.
Just looking at the time of your observation,the sun would have been about 35° below the horizon and your object was around the zenith which would be a good height for a flaring satellite.
Cheers
PS Supernova hang around a bit after going bang.
Visually that is.
