Photo: pixabay Did you see that blue-green streak that lit up the dark sky this morning? If it was fast and extremely bright, it could have been the fireball reported by six other people in BC around 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). Some at BC Interior are talking about it on social media. Castanet also received reports of sightings in the Okanagan. Were you one of them? Lucky! If you want to see the reference visit or if you want to add your sight to the reference visit There are meteor showers that are currently active and listed in the AMS Meteor Calendar. A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are seen radiating or emanating from a point in the night sky called the irradiator. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds in parallel orbits. The IAU Meteor Data Center lists over 900 suspected meteor showers of which about 100 are well established. Meteor showers are the easiest to observe and provide the most activity. Special attention should be paid to the time and conditions of the moon. All these showers look best after midnight. Some are not even visible until after midnight. Showers that peak with the phase of the moon greater than half illuminated (first quarter to last quarter) will be affected by moonlight and difficult to observe.
