The Dutch Observatory

May 19, 2010 on 6:27 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

We went to CE tonight and witnessed a strange phenomenan. As it was still light, Frank and I were looking at what we first thought was Mars. but it was almost as bright as Venus, as Frank, who was looking through his scope, detected a pendulum below it that seemed to go from horizontal down and up again to horizontal and back again. I hurried up to try to make an image of it…, but was too late as we saw it explode, Frank in the eye piece and I with the naked eye. Frank was still following it as it came down until it was not recognizable anymore in the sky. wonder what this was…..