Was it a plane? Was it a UFO? Bright light about quebec fascinates stargazers
With eyes, Stargazers changed that on Tuesday evening to take the meteor shower shower, were something of this world witness.
In a publication on Facebook, the Astrolab du Parc National du Mont-MéganticIn the eastern townships of Quebec, it described it as “a beautiful and luminous spiral -shaped stripes about heaven around 10:40 PM”
Several people in the Montreal area also witnessed the strange phenomenon and reached for CBC news that describes a bright light that is enveloped by a Fuzzy Halo and warning for a UFO perception.
Although it was certainly unusual, it was not really a non -created flying object, but more likely the result of a rocket launch, according to the Astrolab.
“It was in all likelihood the second phase of an Ariane 6 rocket that ignited his engine to de-bite himself after he had released the European satellite metop-SGA1 in a polar track,” explained the Facebook post.
The European Space Agency confirmed on its website that a weather satellite was launched on Tuesday evening at 9:37 PM Local Time, from the European Space Port in Kourou, Frans Guyana – an overseas France department in South America.
The new satellite is intended to herald “a new era of weather and climate monitoring of Polar Orbit”.
If you thought Aliens might be visiting, you can be disappointed to hear that it was actually a rocket called Ariane 6 who streaked about Quebec’s Nightshemel on August 12. It was launched from the French Guyana just after 9:37 pm local time, with a satellite in the room.
According to astrophysicist Robert Lamontagne, the track of the rocket is ready for the spectacle to be visible in Quebec.
Usually Rocket launches on an equatorial job and will therefore be visible near the equator, he said.
In a polar track, the rocket must go around the earth that circles every pool of the planet.
“So the route of the rocket made it so that it could be seen from our latitude in Montreal or the south of Quebec,” he said.
But to witness the phenomena, other factors must also coordinate, according to Lamontagne, including the time of the launch and the height that the rocket reaches.
“From our point of view we were in the dark, the sun was low under the horizon, but the rocket itself was so high that it was still lit by the sun,” he said.
And when the second phase of the rocket came in again the atmosphere of the earth, he said: “It turned a bit, exhaust gases came out and that is what people saw in the air.”
A spokesperson for the Canadian Space Agency told CBC News that many observers have recorded video of the event, confirming the agency that it was the Ariane 6 Rocket from the ESA.
