Daniel Island resident captured meteor on outdoor camera

DANIEL ISLAND — A bright, white shooting star blazed across the dark night sky this week in a video captured by a local resident who started his quest with the intent of spying on furry-tailed rodents.

Charlie Truesdale purchased an outdoor camera to record squirrels nesting under the solar panel on his roof. The camera didn’t do a good job catching the critters in the act, he said. He had the camera aimed at the roof, but at some point it was knocked over, pointing at the sky instead.

“Maybe the evil squirrels did it, I don’t know,” Truesdale told The Post and Courier.

The camera was in this position for about a month. He left it there because its night vision captured the constellations better than his eyes, he said. He made a few time lapse videos of the stars rotating around the Ear