Hopefully you’re not covered in clouds like we are, because if our experience of a couple days past is any indication, the Orionids could give us quite a display this year. While coming home very late (after midnight) a few nights ago, the sky was suddenly illuminated by a bright green fireball streaking down from the sky — the largest and brightest we’ve ever seen. It moved very slowly through the sky, dropping out of sight below the horizon line. The picture above is not a real photograph (as you’ll quickly be able to tell if you’re familiar with constellations since the star field is just random dots), but is a re-construction made with a photo-editing program so that we could re-capture from our memories the vision of this amazing sight.
If you get clear skies, it might be worth it to brave the cold and sit for awhile, gazing upward. The Orionids are not known for a high volume of falls, but they do have a reputation for producing some spectacular fireballs, and for us, at least, that reputation is well deserved. Happy Viewing!
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by Kenton and Rebecca
Filed under: Natural Phenomena
What a wonderful experience to have witnessed something so beautiful. That is a fantastic idea to recreate something so meaningful.
Thanks MObugs! It truly was remarkable, and it was fun to try to come home and re-create it as close as possible to our memory of the event.