Post by akl on Aug 9, 2009 10:11:33 GMT
Spotted a very brief but very bright Perseid fireball at 21:58GMT (22:58 BST) last night - Saturday 08 August 2009.
I was observing from Lisburn looking slightly N of East and the fireball appeared deep in light pollution at about 30 degrees (bit of a guess) above the horizon not far from the top left hand star of the Pegasus Square. It had a short but distictly two dimensional green tail bowed slightly upwards and was travelling more or less parallel to the horizon from left to right (more or less on a radiant from Perseus). There was a small white flash as it vanished.
Alan Love
I was observing from Lisburn looking slightly N of East and the fireball appeared deep in light pollution at about 30 degrees (bit of a guess) above the horizon not far from the top left hand star of the Pegasus Square. It had a short but distictly two dimensional green tail bowed slightly upwards and was travelling more or less parallel to the horizon from left to right (more or less on a radiant from Perseus). There was a small white flash as it vanished.
Alan Love
