viewed the demise of a star last night 26th Dec 2018 at 21:57 AEDST

I was out walking dogs last night, just happened to look up towards the saucepan, which was roughly +10deg off TN with elevation of around 60deg, clear skies, I see one star in a constellation, in a direction of about 8 o'clock from the saucepan, it swells up then shrinks until it disappeared, all over the period of about 5 seconds. there was no sideways movement, so not a satellite. It flared up bright white, larger than any other star in the sky, then  it disappeared.  I ripped the phone out of my pocket  to note the time. Amazing.