Ich saß gerade um 19 Uhr norwegischer Zeit mitten in Norwegen vor meiner Hütte, als ich im Nordosten einen plötzlichen Blitz am Himmel sah.
Es lag knapp unterhalb des Großen Wagens (Karlsvogna).
Es war ein ziemlich heller Fleck.
Könnte es eine Sternenexplosion gewesen sein? Und gibt es ein Protokoll solcher Ereignisse? Ich hätte vielleicht ein Meteor sein können, der direkt auf mich zukommt, aber meine Neugier bringt mich um.
Ich habe versucht, den Standort auf der Himmelskarte zu bestimmen, siehe beigefügtes Bild
https://i.redd.it/yea0y79i0wkg1.jpeg
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Probably a transitory satellite flare. Iridium birds are notoriously bright.
More likely a satellite reflecting the sun.
A nova would last days if not weeks
A star explosion lasts several weeks at peak brightness. Is it still there now? If not, it is not a star explosion.
Thanks for your detailed report! Probably a satellite flare. Not very rare but always nice to catch one.
Stars are huge, so any explosion would take days or weeks to develop.
Most likely it was a small meteor or maybe a satellite catching sunlight briefly. If it was a star explosion people would probably have noticed globally, they aren’t just brief flashes and then nothing, if it’s big enough to see with the naked eye it would last days or months
The „blaze star“ is a bit left of Alphekka. Probably NOT that, but keep looking there, anyway. It’s due to blaze soon-ish.
I think the chances of it being a visible supernova are pretty tiny. Hasn’t happened many times, and it would surely be on TV if that was what it was.
If you actually saw a star explosion, it would still be visible to our eyes and there would be many articles about it online already, and it would be all over the news. Whatever it was, it wasn’t an exploding star.
Any kind of nova (super or not) lasts much longer than that, usually months or even years. A nova is considered „fast“ if it dims significantly within 100 days.
As others have said, a satellite flare is also possible, though usually those are clearly moving. Still one possibility, the other is what you already suspected which is a meteor that was headed close to straight towards you.
If it were a supernova that close you’d have had every telescope, Hubble, Webb and the rest pointing at it. We’d probably would have likely had an early warning from the couple of neutrino detectors around too.
Most likely, sunlight reflecting off the solar panels of a satellite for a moment.
There are a few videos of what Betelgeuse exploding might look like: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQ1qBz1UJQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQ1qBz1UJQ)
It’s cool to know, but it’s also cool to have the capacity to leave things to mystery and embracing it as that.
With that said, it was likely a satellite that reflected light temporarily, or a meteorite. Occam’s razor.