© Australian Weathercam NetworkDozens of people took to social media on Monday night after spotting a meteor over the skies of south east Queensland
The Australian Weathercam Network's (AWN) camera at New Farm, which takes a photo every 20 seconds at night, captured the shooting star over a green-lit Story Bridge at exactly 7:50:40pm on Monday.
It was also sighted by dozens of people who took to social media to share their excitement.
Dr Stephen Hughes from Queensland University of Technology's Science and Engineering Faculty said the meteor had to be burning bright for it to be photographed so clearly over a brightly-lit Brisbane CBD.
"If it was in the sky for several seconds, that's in a fireball category, like something the size of an orange coming through the atmosphere," he said.
Dr Hughes said spotting a meteor was common, adding that a stargazer could see one as frequently as every half hour.
"If you see a meteor flash really quick it's probably the size of a grain of sand. If it's like this it could be bigger because it's burning for longer," he said.
"The fact it's got that light competition and it can still be seen ... I would veer towards something a bit bigger coming in."
© Australian Weathercam NetworkA Kallangur webcam at managed to capture the tail end of the Monday night meteor
"It was going far too fast to be a satellite," he said.
"Satellites only travel at between five and seven kilometres a second, that sounds fast to most people, but that's quite slow astronomically speaking.
"Even the slowest of the meteorites travel at 11 kilometres a second and the average one that most people would see at night time would be travelling between 40 and 70 kilometres a second."
The tail end of the meteor was captured by another AWN webcam at Kallangur, north of Brisbane.
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