With reports emerging of an aurora in the north of the UK,
this could be quite an interesting evening for astronomers.

At 7:09pm today, I observed a slow-moving fireball (very
bright meteor) to the WNW in the evening twilight sky from
a country lane about 2 miles southwest of Romsey. Lasting
for some 3 seconds, it had a large nucleus with a short
tail and slowly descended from left to right at roughly
30 degrees elevation.

Had the sky been completely dark and had I not viewed
the meteor through a car windscreen, it might have been
a spectacular sight.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)