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Meteors. 21:52 - Jul 21 with 915 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

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 860 viewsStokieBlue

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 856 viewsSwansea_Blue

That’d be Bezos’ ego burning up on re-entry. Def info.

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Meteors. on 22:08 - Jul 21 with 811 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

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 793 viewsCaptainAhab

Saw it too!! IP30
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Meteors. on 22:13 - Jul 21 with 781 viewsNthsuffolkblue

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 767 viewsSitfcB

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Meteors. on 22:23 - Jul 21 with 734 viewsMJallday

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 739 viewsPhilTWTD

Meteors. on 22:19 - Jul 21 by SitfcB

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Meteors. on 22:40 - Jul 21 with 693 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

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 657 viewsNthsuffolkblue

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 23:00 - Jul 21 with 641 viewsbazza

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Meteors. on 23:09 - Jul 21 with 614 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

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 559 viewsFixed_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 537 viewsBasingstokeBlue

Meteors. on 22:23 - Jul 21 by PhilTWTD

Or Gwion's free-kick.


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Meteors. on 00:44 - Jul 22 with 536 viewsstonojnr

Meteors. on 22:19 - Jul 21 by SitfcB

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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
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Meteors. on 00:52 - Jul 22 with 533 viewsstonojnr

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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