To me, if the meteors are visible but faint, they just look white. I've never seen a meteor that was bright enough to show color. But then, I live under very light-polluted skies.Chris Peterson wrote:Of the thousands of witness reports I've collected over the years, about 3/4 of fireballs are reported as green or green-blue. So actually, not seeing a bright meteor as green is what would be a little more unusual.Ann wrote:A green meteor! Not bad!
Right- which is why I referred to fireballs (mag < -4) particularly. Ordinary meteors are usually observed as white, or occasionally slightly orange or yellow (especially slower shower meteors like Geminids). The situation is different with fireballs, which are commonly observed to be green- especially the sort of bright fireballs that light up the ground. Those are every bit as impressive in the middle of the brightest city as they are from a dark site.Ann wrote:To me, if the meteors are visible but faint, they just look white. I've never seen a meteor that was bright enough to show color. But then, I live under very light-polluted skies.
Orin, you must have watched the two hikers, with the surprise ending. The direct house hit was neat. I'll have to come back and watch some more, later.orin stepanek wrote:I've never seen much more than a streak from meteors! That's OK though; I really don't want to get too close.Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Not to worry- those bright fireballs are all many miles up in the sky. Most people who witness a really bright fireball describe it as one of the highlights of their life. I have people who report things they saw 50 years ago, and which they remember clearly still.orin stepanek wrote:I've never seen much more than a streak from meteors! That's OK though; I really don't want to get too close.
I didn't see it and I didn't find it!Beyond wrote: Orin, you must have watched the two hikers, with the surprise ending. The direct house hit was neat. I'll have to come back and watch some more, later.
I guess your right! I mean if you see it and you remember it; Your still alive!Chris Peterson wrote: Not to worry- those bright fireballs are all many miles up in the sky. Most people who witness a really bright fireball describe it as one of the highlights of their life. I have people who report things they saw 50 years ago, and which they remember clearly still.
If it hits you; you probably didn't have time to see it anyway! 
Orin, after watching the first one, the one you posted, 9-choices will appear. Click the one in the middle, the meteor hitting the house. After that one plays, and the next batch appear, click on -mystery meteor-, on the left side. That's the hikers and the meteor with the surprise ending. Pay -close- attention at the end when the camera hits the ground. It's a bit boring until the meteor arrives.orin stepanek wrote:I didn't see it and I didn't find it!Beyond wrote: Orin, you must have watched the two hikers, with the surprise ending. The direct house hit was neat. I'll have to come back and watch some more, later.
OK after putting the video on full screen I was able to find it! Before there were only 4 choices.Beyond wrote: Orin, after watching the first one, the one you posted, 9-choices will appear. Click the one in the middle, the meteor hitting the house. After that one plays, and the next batch appear, click on -mystery meteor-, on the left side. That's the hikers and the meteor with the surprise ending. Pay -close- attention at the end when the camera hits the ground. It's a bit boring until the meteor arrives.
I imagine the hikers are OK; otherwise we probably wouldn't be watching their video. 
Orin, you didn't pay attention. The camera was -found- by the boulder, with no one around, and they haven't been seen since. You can see why, IF you pay attention at the end, after the camera ends up on the ground. That's why i said it has a surprise ending. The color is a clue to the surprise. You might want to magnify your screen somewhat. I normally run mine at 150%. You can see the surprise on the camera screen.orin stepanek wrote:OK after putting the video on full screen I was able to find it! Before there were only 4 choices.Beyond wrote: Orin, after watching the first one, the one you posted, 9-choices will appear. Click the one in the middle, the meteor hitting the house. After that one plays, and the next batch appear, click on -mystery meteor-, on the left side. That's the hikers and the meteor with the surprise ending. Pay -close- attention at the end when the camera hits the ground. It's a bit boring until the meteor arrives.
I really can't tell what happened! The picture is very sketchy like maybe someone stopped the camera from running at the end when something happened to them. You really can't tell what it was. I tried to download that youtube but I couldn't!Beyond wrote: Orin, you didn't pay attention. The camera was -found- by the boulder, with no one around, and they haven't been seen since. You can see why, IF you pay attention at the end, after the camera ends up on the ground. That's why i said it has a surprise ending. The color is a clue to the surprise. You might want to magnify your screen somewhat. I normally run mine at 150%. You can see the surprise on the camera screen.
I even paused the video at the moment and nothing is clear! 
I still think what really happened has been tampered with! Ok, i guess I'll have to tell you. The surprise at the end, is a long (about 5-foot) thin green alien thingy that jumps out of the meteor and attacks the guy. That's why the woman is screaming and drops the camera. You can only see the alien briefly in the camera screen. Then it attacks the woman. You can tell that she is attacked because she stops screaming, and also because you can see the bottom portion of her legs by the camera and when the alien disappears from the camera screen, you see the front part of her shoes go up as she is being knocked backwards by the alien attacking her. Then the video stops. Someone made a decent special effects video. Of course the one who filmed the whole thing is never mentioned. Hey, it might have been the alien's partner filming the attack on the human thingys.orin stepanek wrote:I really can't tell what happened! The picture is very sketchy like maybe someone stopped the camera from running at the end when something happened to them. You really can't tell what it was. I tried to download that youtube but I couldn't!Beyond wrote: Orin, you didn't pay attention. The camera was -found- by the boulder, with no one around, and they haven't been seen since. You can see why, IF you pay attention at the end, after the camera ends up on the ground. That's why i said it has a surprise ending. The color is a clue to the surprise. You might want to magnify your screen somewhat. I normally run mine at 150%. You can see the surprise on the camera screen.
The good news is that, after almost 15 years studying meteors and meteorites (some very closely), this has never happened to me!Beyond wrote:Ok, i guess I'll have to tell you. The surprise at the end, is a long (about 5-foot) thin green alien thingy that jumps out of the meteor and attacks the guy.
On November 16, I made the post I'm quoting here. It's been two weeks since then, and this is what I've seen in the sky since then: A bleary Moon peering through clouds twice. The handle of the Big Dipper between clouds one morning. And yesterday, one and a half hours after sunset, as I was cycling home after work, I saw Jupiter shining brightly. After a little searching I saw the Summer Triangle high in the sky. Vega looked nice. But try as I might, I couldn't find the Big Dipper. I stopped where two streetlamps had gone out, which provided some relief from the light pollution. I also had a good view of the sky to the north. And there, finally, was the Big Dipper, and also Polaris. But would you believe I couldn't see Dubhe?Ann wrote:At 12.53 in this Youtube video , you can hear a young boy shouting: I can see sky!!! Stars!!![/size]
That was me this morning! I could see sky!!! Stars!!! All the stars at once! And I saw Mars and Regulus!!!
No big deal, you think? That's because you haven't seen our night skies here in southern Sweden in November. We've had a ton of overcast skies! A mile of them! A gigahertz of them! A light-year of them!!!
But this morning I could see sky!!!! Stars!!!
Ann
A meteor. He'd likely be much happier (and at least a little richer) if he'd bagged a meteorite. Unless, of course, it was actually a meteorwrong, which all too many turn out to be!Ann wrote:Congrats on bagging another remarkable meteorite, Beyond!
Alas poor Yoricktor, I've only seen you from afar. Perhaps one day I'll hold you in my hand, as a Yorickite, and hope that you are not a YorickwrongChris Peterson wrote:A meteor. He'd likely be much happier (and at least a little richer) if he'd bagged a meteorite. Unless, of course, it was actually a meteorwrong, which all too many turn out to be!Ann wrote:Congrats on bagging another remarkable meteorite, Beyond!
Well, they seem to be a little north of where i see Orion's belt. But I'm not sure if they come after or before the Belt, as i don't see them at the same time. When i see Orion's Belt, from N/E Connecticut, it's to the S/W through an opening in the tree line, most of the time. And when i see what looks like a smaller version of the Belt, i think orientated at a different angle, it's usually about due west of me. I haven't caught either one of them for a while now, but it been cloudy and raining a lot this summer and fall. Does that help at all?TNT wrote:Where? Are you talking about stars close to Orion's belt or far away?
Hmm... they seem to be a bit smaller then Orion's Belt stars, so of course they would appear dimmer then Orion, but with the naked eye, they look just like the Belt. I think i first noticed them earlier in the year when there was a conversation about Orion's belt somewhere in the Asterisk*. I started paying more attention to the Belt. Sometime later it dawned on me that the Belt looked smaller. Realizing that rain wouldn't shrink star patterns, i deduced that it couldn't actually be the Belt. No sword either. I know there's a Big and Little dipper and you need help to see the small one because it is so faint. But i don't need any help at all to see a small Orion's Belt, without a sword.TNT wrote:I think I might know what you are talking about, but I doubt they have a name. Are these stars really bright, fairly bright, or not very bright?
