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Meteor (Meteor, est. mag -12)
Observer: Amar Sharma (e-mail: amar_universe@yahoo.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Jan 28 23:00:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1486
A total of 5 of us had gone for general sky-observation around 70 km. away from Bangalore city. The sky was very dark and weather was very chilly, luckily no winds blowing. Throughout the night we could see meteors passing throughout the sky. They came in all varities, short and fast, long and slow and others. We didn't know which shower were we looking at. In the early morning at around 4 or 5 a.m. we saw one exceptional meteor which I had never seen and am sure not everyone gets a chance to see such fireballs. Suddenly one very bright meteor which we saw, suddenly exploded in the atmosphere. It created no sound at all. This explosion let out yellowish light for maybe just 1 second. And that 1 second worth of flash was sufficient to create enough light as there is at maybe 6.00 in the evening !! There was daylight for just a brief second !! The trail left by it did not remain for a long time as I had expected it to be. It vanished quite fast in less than 1 minute.
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