There is a down side to sitting in an observatory looking at a tiny piece of the constellation Coma Berenices. All sorts of things are going on in the rest of the sky.
Last night a meteoroid entered the atmosphere above the eastern portion of the Florida panhandle. The reported flight path matches the apparent path seen in the video captured by my SkySentinel camera. It looks like the meteoroid entered the atmosphere due east of the observatory at a very steep angle. It was just visible through my eastern tree line.
Based on the number of fireball reports (220) to the American Meteor Society (AMS) lots of people were looking at a larger portion of the sky than I was. (event 1439-2019). But the ones with the best view of the fireball showed up less than a minute later. Wait for it…