Last night while walking Tannah
I saw the longest shooting star trail I’ve ever seen. I was walking north along
Chester Street when my periphery vision detected a moving light in the sky
above the houses. My vantage point was perfect to view this phenomenon in a
clear patch of clear evening sky to the East.
Normally I’ve found with
shooting stars that if you don’t happen to be looking directly at that point in the
sky where the star enters Earth’s atmosphere, you miss it. From past experience
I’ve noticed they generally occur almost as fast as lightning. By the time your
brain registers what’s happening and you shift your gaze to that location, it’s
already finished.
But this one was different. I
had time to look in that direction, and to register what it was. The leading tip
of it seemed to have a slightly green tint. I was half-expecting to hear
the explosion of fireworks after it extinguished. But just as fast as I had
that thought I realized the streak had been traveling horizontally through the
sky, not rising or falling vertically.
This one makes up for missing
the recent annual Perseid Meteor Shower.
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