Meteors. 21:52 - Jul 21 with 917 views | StochesStotasBlewe | Just sitting in the garden in IP23 and saw what I assume was a meteor or something burn up into pieces in a flash. Any stargazers confirm this is what happened or saw it too. Amazing and literally over in a few seconds. No, I haven’t been drinking. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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Meteors. on 21:59 - Jul 21 with 862 views | StokieBlue | Almost certainly a meteor. If it was close enough you might have been able to see a colour which would then indicate what it was made of. SB | |
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Meteors. on 21:59 - Jul 21 with 858 views | Swansea_Blue | That’d be Bezos’ ego burning up on re-entry. Def info. | |
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Meteors. on 22:08 - Jul 21 with 813 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Meteors. on 21:59 - Jul 21 by StokieBlue | Almost certainly a meteor. If it was close enough you might have been able to see a colour which would then indicate what it was made of. SB |
Thanks. Quite a large white ball of light, then fragmented and disappeared immediately. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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Meteors. on 22:11 - Jul 21 with 795 views | CaptainAhab | Saw it too!! IP30 | | | |
Meteors. on 22:13 - Jul 21 with 783 views | Nthsuffolkblue | So, a shooting star then. See a lot of them in August. Well worth staring into the sky on a clear August night away from lots of artificial light if you are able to. | |
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Meteors. on 22:19 - Jul 21 with 769 views | SitfcB | Could it have been this...?
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Meteors. on 22:23 - Jul 21 with 736 views | MJallday | Lucky enough to live in a dark sky area so we see meteors frequently. They’re quite a thing arnt they | |
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Meteors. on 22:23 - Jul 21 with 741 views | PhilTWTD |
Meteors. on 22:19 - Jul 21 by SitfcB | Could it have been this...?
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Meteors. on 22:40 - Jul 21 with 695 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Meteors. on 22:13 - Jul 21 by Nthsuffolkblue | So, a shooting star then. See a lot of them in August. Well worth staring into the sky on a clear August night away from lots of artificial light if you are able to. |
Not a shooting star. Seen plenty of those since we moved out here. Very little light pollution. This was much larger and it had not got dark yet. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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Meteors. on 22:53 - Jul 21 with 659 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Meteors. on 22:40 - Jul 21 by StochesStotasBlewe | Not a shooting star. Seen plenty of those since we moved out here. Very little light pollution. This was much larger and it had not got dark yet. |
Ah. Technically still the same phenomenon but a bigger meteor to have caused it. I wonder if there is some distinction between the two. Must have been quite something to notice. | |
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Meteors. on 23:09 - Jul 21 with 616 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Meteors. on 22:53 - Jul 21 by Nthsuffolkblue | Ah. Technically still the same phenomenon but a bigger meteor to have caused it. I wonder if there is some distinction between the two. Must have been quite something to notice. |
You are quite right, they are the same phenomenon, just that this seemed so close and i've only seen shooting stars before when it's totally dark. Seen lot's of interesting stuff in the night sky in the last few months, the Elon Musk satellite train was something else. Perhaps invasion of the bodysnatchers is imminent. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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Meteors. on 00:16 - Jul 22 with 561 views | Fixed_It |
Meteors. on 22:08 - Jul 21 by StochesStotasBlewe | Thanks. Quite a large white ball of light, then fragmented and disappeared immediately. |
Yep. I saw it too here in the East Midlands. Was surprised as it wasn't particularly dark. | |
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Meteors. on 00:39 - Jul 22 with 539 views | BasingstokeBlue |
Meteors. on 22:23 - Jul 21 by PhilTWTD | Or Gwion's free-kick. |
Ssssshh - don’t aggravate blubbers. | |
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Meteors. on 00:44 - Jul 22 with 538 views | stonojnr |
Meteors. on 22:19 - Jul 21 by SitfcB | Could it have been this...?
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nope, the ISS,and tonight it had the company of Nauka and even its booster rocket so there were 3 objects to track,move across the sky as a pinpoint of light in a fairly steady arc,and it was at least visible for several minutes tonight, whilst a meteor is a burst/streak of light that lasts only a few seconds | | | |
Meteors. on 00:52 - Jul 22 with 535 views | stonojnr | yep most likely a Perseid, was it roughly on a North/South axis ? though the peak is still some weeks away the Earth is still passing through the region of space where the debris cloud is so you will see occasional ones in the build up to August 11-13, I saw one on Saturday, so its definitel but you can expect to see 1 per minute like that at the peak, assuming light pollution is low, clear view to the horizon, and the moon isnt too bright, not cloudy etc etc. | | | |
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