Shooting Star report

Ooh, I just saw a really big “shooting star” low in the NW sky. (just before 6am Eastern)

DH was getting set to leave to go to Knoxville for a few appointments today. It’s early, still dark, and I was awake in the family room, updating the windows software on my new laptop, so I decided to go out with him to see him leave, and comment with him on how it felt outside, temps being lower the last day or so.

We stood there on the front sidewalk and it was pleasantly chilly. I was turning to the left and scanning the sky for star clarity (I love it when it’s cold and clear!) when my eye caught something new moving, and I instantly was able to see it and enjoyed a very large fall of something from fairly low in the sky, rapidly moving downward, it was very quick, but very visible, quite large for a “shooting star” and very classic in how it looked –“shot” downward as a “shooting star.”

It was a very satisfying experience for me. I love watching meteor showers and the last time there was a decent one around we had overcast skies. So this set things to right for me. A surprise large one. (Whatever it was doesn’t matter, it was just something falling through the atmosphere, of course, not “really” a “shooting star” … that’s just our romaticized way of speaking about things falling into our air space, as long as it’s not right on our heads.)