Fireball Seen Over Cork

At 21:10 this evening(Wednesday December 4), while setting up my telescope to view Orion :scope: , I witnessed a bright fireball which was significantly brighter than Venus, lasted 5-6 seconds, and left a smoke trail in its wake.

It appeared at an approximate altitude of 30° above the western horizon, below the star Markab in Regulus. It lasted for around 5 seconds, and then disappeared approx. 20° above the western horizon.

I have reported it to Astronomy Ireland.

Anyone else see it? If you were outside at the time you wouldn't have missed it.

Cian

There is a posting about this on the A&S forum on boards.ie.

Michael.

Thanks Cian

Cherryvalley observatory based in Meath has a sky monitoring system which covers both north and north-east directions, unfortunately it seems like I missed this meteor event! Michael O’Connell’s camera in Kildare also covers north-east. Would be very interesting if anyone got a video or image of the event!

Best wishes and clear skies
Mike

Fingers crossed it was recorded somewhere. Someone on boards.ie also spotted the meteor, but it seems like I may have been a little off in my estimate of time. I did not check what time it was because I had my phone inside, but the other person who saw it(his visual description matches mine) thinks it happened at around 9:40-9:50 p .m. I think he's right about the time.

Also spotted in Dublin at around 21:45, facing west.

No record of it on my meteor camera unfortunately.
This is why we could do with more camera systems...