Last night

whydave

Did anyone else see this ,if so what was it .......
Last night at 2100hrs approx myself and a number of friends were in north County Dublin and saw (SSE direction)* an object burning in the night sky ,also it was moving very fast.It was below the cloud cover,it was traveling in an East to west direction.

David



* from were we were you can see the approchs to Dublin Airport and this was not on any of them .

peterako

Saw same about 10.40pm here in the midlands.

At first I thought it might be a Chinese Lantern....so got the Binoculars out...
It was some sort of aircraft (coloured lights either side of the yellow white central and bright light).

Moving at a steady if relatively slow speed East to West.

Could have been a light aircraft flying to Galway, though it was pretty quiet (I can't remember hearig much)....I was struggling with collimating my scope

whydave

This thing was moving like a bat out of hell and on fire !

maninasia

Sounds like a meteor.

tricky D

Twas a meteor of the falling star kind at 21:20. Unlike a 'regular' meteor which would streak across the sky, this appeared to break up at the end which seemed quite close to the ground. I saw it from Howth looking westward. Looked to be falling towards the Finglas/Glasnevin area though that's difficult to estimate with any decent accuracy.

Then got the ISS at 21:58 too.


@peterako you likely saw something else

peterako

Yep...a small light and quiet aircraft

Would have preferred to see a meteor

trebor28

tricky D wrote: »

Twas a meteor of the falling star kind at 21:20. Unlike a 'regular' meteor which would streak across the sky, this appeared to break up at the end which seemed quite close to the ground. I saw it from Howth looking westward. Looked to be falling towards the Finglas/Glasnevin area though that's difficult to estimate with any decent accuracy.

Then got the ISS at 21:58 too.


@peterako you likely saw something else

i saw this exact thing and i live in tipp. so it did not fall in finglas.
i was walking beside my house which is a two story building, so only saw the tail end of it or at least what i thought was the tail end of it.
it travelled in an east to west direction just slightly w/nw imo.
i reckon it was about 70 degrees up from the horizon. i reported it on the astronomy website.
if you saw it in dublin and though it fell there and i saw it down here and it was still below me then it probably fell in the irish sea below cork somewhere.

Ilyushin76

Maybe the iss ?

tricky D

trebor28 wrote: »

i saw this exact thing and i live in tipp. so it did not fall in finglas.
i was walking beside my house which is a two story building, so only saw the tail end of it or at least what i thought was the tail end of it.
it travelled in an east to west direction just slightly w/nw imo.
i reckon it was about 70 degrees up from the horizon. i reported it on the astronomy website.
if you saw it in dublin and though it fell there and i saw it down here and it was still below me then it probably fell in the irish sea below cork somewhere.

Strange, what I saw was heading between the north and mainly west of Dublin and this sounds consistent with whydave's sighting. You were looking south??

John85 wrote: »

Maybe the iss ?

Definitely not. I've seen the ISS at least 50 times and have lost count of shooting stars. The direction, speed and break up point to a falling meteor. The time is wrong too as the ISS came over at 21:58 bang on schedule and has a ~90 minute orbit time.

trebor28

tricky D wrote: »

Strange, what I saw was heading between the north and mainly west of Dublin and this sounds consistent with whydave's sighting. You were looking south??

i was facing south and saw it in the sky quite high up. as i said it was going in an east to west direction but i dont know how much of it i missed do to it being obscured by my house. i only caught about 3 or 4 secs of it before it broke up.

heard it on the radio today too being announced in the news at 2.

yomchi

Hi all, first time poster here. This thread caught me eye as the same thing happened to us tonight. We were in Glasnevin, a friend of mine recently bought these jazzy strong bino's and we were out looking at the moons around Jupiter when this ball of fire came from the direction of Jupiter which was east. It looked very low and was large and bright orange. Because it came in the same direction of incoming flights it looked like a burning plane! It was travelling too fast though. It burned out just as it came under polaris. Incredible sight, I'm assuming it's a meteor?

Thanks!

maninasia

It may have been parts of the same meteor which had broken up on entry at a shallow angle.

Thoie

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/meteorite-thought-to-have-landed-in-tipperary-472233.html

BornIn84

maybe it was a chinese latern from electric picnic lol...i was at the festival and there was tonnes of them going up every few minutes...

Aiel

Local radio this morning in Galway asking people around South Galway,North East Clare and North Tipp to look in their fields etc for possible fragments of a meteorite.People in the Portumna area especially asked to look for anything unusual on their property etc.

maninasia

Meteorites are valuable objects, good luck to the finder.

portumnadaz

Ya lets everyone rally around and give away the position to ****ing astronomy Ireland so the prick that owns it can find it and make a fortune. This frenzy isn't going to be in the interest of the Irish people or astronomy its an information gathering exercise to locate the rock. Its very easy to triangulate the rock as long as enough people give the angle, time and position.

The prick that runs astronomy Ireland is DEFINITELY not sharing the information that he gets with anyone.

maninasia

I'm afraid that's what it looks like, it also looks like my first guess was correct, it was a meteorite that broke up into fragments at a shallow trajectory over Ireland, some of which may have impacted in different areas of the country.

tricky D

portumnadaz wrote: »

Ya lets everyone rally around and give away the position to ****ing astronomy Ireland so the prick that owns it can find it and make a fortune. This frenzy isn't going to be in the interest of the Irish people or astronomy its an information gathering exercise to locate the rock. Its very easy to triangulate the rock as long as enough people give the angle, time and position.

The prick that runs astronomy Ireland is DEFINITELY not sharing the information that he gets with anyone.

I reported a fall a few months ago, for the first and last time, and got signed up without permission to their newsletter which is is full of really spammy stuff and is way too frequent, sometimes it seems like daily. Lost count of the number of newsletters promoting their bbq.

Also, to get ISS predictions you have to use some premium rate thing. Thankfully and the others Heavens Above are free.

AI = Spammy rip-off.