Shannon Bileski caught a meteor on camera while out at Patricia Beach March 29, 2013. (HANDOUT/Shannon Bileski) HANDOUT/Shannon Bileski

WINNIPEG — With her camera set to a shutter speed of eight seconds, a local woman managed to capture a spectacular meteor display.

Shannon Bileski was on the east side of Lake Winnipeg late Friday night with her astronomy club.

"We saw a bright flash with green explosions … it was a meteor!" she wrote in an e-mail.

"(I) managed to capture the entry and explosions (look closely and you can see them)!" she wrote.

Flashes of green in the sky turn out to be meteors less often than you’d think, ﻿Planetarium spokesman Scott Young has previously told QMI Agency.

﻿Winnipeggers get treated to this kind of spectacular skyward event about once a year, Young said.

"I think people are excited to see things that are outside their normal experience," Young said. "We get a lot of calls about ‘that light in the sky’ which turn out to be meteors, planets, the Space Station, etc. but people are still excited because they just ‘discovered’ them themselves.

"Humans love to discover things."