AMAZING video of the moment a large meteor created a bright fireball over Wales and the west country has been captured by an observatory.
A meteor sighting has sparked plenty of chatter in Swansea today after it was spotted just before 3am.
Experts heard reports that a massive shooting star had been spotted streaking across the sky in the early hours, and rewound the observatory’s two fixed cameras – and were thrilled to find a perfect clip of a flaming meteor arcing across the sky at 2:04am before disappearing behind clouds.
Dave Jones of the Sidmouth Radio Astronomy Group said: “We have two cameras that watch for meteors during darkness, so upon hearing the news I logged in to check our data and see if we had captured anything.
“Fortunately the meteor passed in front of both of our cameras so we ended up with two videos of the same event.
“Due to cloud and raindrops on the camera lenses the image was not as clear as we would like, however the sheer size and brightness of this object burning up in our atmosphere almost overwhelmed our cameras as it was so bright.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
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