So I was out looking at Jupiter and other stuff last night 8-Nov-12, At about 1:30 AM I see a big brilliant flash of green light in the corner of my eye (as if someone had let off a flare 200 meters away) and I turn to see the remainder of a brilliant green meteor shoot across the sky (direction was about 75 Deg east north east and altitude about 30 Deg). I am In Western Australia and just wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this and or can explain it (best thing I can think of is a big copper meteor), Also if there is any nearby meteor tracking resources that I can check to see if they've got it on record. I only wish I had a camera recording that area of the sky at that time
ah Rockingham too, it was very impressive, haven't seen anything like it before. Makes me want to invest in one of those Orion all sky cams, so i'll get everything on video.
Im in secret harbour, had 2 cameras going that night (one security and one all sky cam)
I reviewed the pics and video around 0130 and nothing on it
really need to calibrate my meteor cameras and get them running again after the winter break!
Ah you're one step ahead of me. That's sucks that you didn't get anything though, I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating (it was pretty bright and was definitely somewhere between 1-1:50, I wish I had paid more attention to the time but I was a bit struck by awe and the need to sleep).
(it was pretty bright and was definitely somewhere between 1-1:50, I wish I had paid more attention to the time but I was a bit struck by awe and the need to sleep).
