Viral loads of greenish light crossing the sky of Magelang City, called BRIN

KOMPAS. com – An uploaded photo shows a greenish light in the sky that is said to be falling towards the east of the city Magelangviral on social media, Monday (5/12/2022).

The incident was alleged to have occurred on Monday 5 December 2022 at 00:45am WIB.

“[Breaking News] 00:45 look at it like this, it’s really big, it’s really bright, it’s falling perpendicularly, it looks like it’s falling towards the east of Magelang city,” wrote the uploader stupidhis.

[Breaking News] 00:45 look at it like this, it’s really big, it’s really bright, it’s falling perpendicularly, it looks like it’s falling towards the east of Magelang city

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As of Monday (12/5/2022) at 12:00 AM WIB, this tweet has received 1,139 likes from other Twitter users.

So what’s the green light?

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Explanation BRIN

National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Space Science Center researcher Andi Prince said this phenomenon was an appearance of rain. meteor Sigma Hydrid.

“In the meantime, in my opinion, it is the Sigma Hydrid meteor shower that has been active since December 2, peaking on December 9, and ending on December 20, 2022,” Andi said, when contacted kompas.com, Monday (5/12/2022).

He added, the Sigma Hydrid phenomenon is an event in the constellation Hydra.

Andi explained that the accident happened when the moon was 90% illuminated at 00:45 WIB.

According to him, at that moment the moon had already set over the western horizon, so that the greenish light of the meteor was not disturbed by the intervention of lunar light.