The night of 2026-08-29
A quiet night, which is what almost every night looks like.
Measured
| independent people marking something | 1 |
| marks in total | 1 |
| a normal night, whole record | 0.76 |
| marked as light | 1 |
What was genuinely in the sky
- The moon was waning, 96% lit. Geomagnetic activity was quiet, Kp 4.3.
What the instruments recorded
The Global Meteor Network's cameras, 1,300 of them across 42 countries, computed 1,395 meteor trajectories for this night, 182 of them over North America, led by the AIC with 27.
This section is added about a week after the night itself, because computing trajectories from camera data takes that long. Instrument data: Global Meteor Network (CC BY 4.0).
Talked about that day
- The hat man and the old hag: 100+ public posts
- Someone in the room: 31 public posts
- Glitches in the matrix: 7 public posts
- Orbs and strange lights: 6 public posts
- Dreams that will not stay dreams: 2 public posts
- Shadow people: 1 public posts
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