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Remarks |
I was inside my livingroom, and my eye was caught by a rather abrupt brightening of the ground outside my window and lightening of the sky (not flickery and abrupt like lightning from a thunderstorm would have caused, but definitely ramped up steadily increasing brightness followed by steadily decreasing intensity)--note that I was watching a brightly lit large-screen television at the time, while sitting on the floor so my eyes were not adjusted at all for outside observing; I think it would have been difficult to see the moon through that window--as I looked out the window the meteor came into view about three seconds after the outside brightening, still brilliant bluish-greenish white, and it diminished in magnitude as it approached the horizon, partly blocked by bare tree limbs in our orchard until it appeared to abruptly stop emitting light approximately five degrees above the horizon. Considering that I was indoors in a well-lit room watching TV and still saw outside brighten and the meteor almost welding arc brilliant against the sky, I think I may have actually seriously underestimated how bright the meteor really was at its peak. My -9 magnitude estimate was only for the direct view of the meteor at about 25-30° through the window glass. |
