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]]> I first though ISON broke in many pieces, but I read that we’re in the Leonid meteor season. The new thing (to me) is crossing their path in broad daylight, and it was amazing.

I woke up too late to try to find it even though today was going to be a clear day, but still I decided to look outside, already the Sun up, but I had a feeling… and lo and behold: I saw several (at least 6) blazing horizontal trails of white light moving very fast.

Cool! 6 comets meteors in a few seconds! 🙂

Sadly I was too amazed to take pictures of this scenery, so I have to draw it, this is how it looked:

Diagram of the six meteors i saw
Diagram of the six meteors i saw

After a bath I looked outside again and sure enough those parts were gone, but two more were visible.

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I just peeked outside and another one was quickly skipping through the sky.

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Did this just really happen or was it another phenomena?

Are these meteors or is it really the light of the new child comets which are moving so blazingly-but-not-light-speed fast?

Here’s a short video of the last piece I saw, it’s faintly visible, but it’s there!

Short Leonid shower video

I was sad to have missed it, but I might have seen something even more amazing!

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