Reports Report 434p (Event 434-2017)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | kate l |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | It felt like it was close to Earth. Brief and bright. I am on the 6th floor of an apt building that looks out to the ocean. Not much of a trajectory. It was a condensed ball of light with the popping, twinkling lights behind it. Had I not been on the phone with my friend, I would have thought someone set off a firework at the beach. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Ocean City, NJ |
| Latitude | 39° 16' 48.14'' N (39.28004°) |
| Longitude | 74° 33' 41.58'' W (-74.56155°) |
| Elevation | 2.185m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2017-02-04 17:30 EST |
| UT Date & Time | 2017-02-04 22:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 125° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 130° |
| First azimuth | 140° |
| First elevation | 35° |
| Last azimuth | 135° |
| Last elevation | 2° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -27 |
| Color | Bright white with some yellow. Bright like firework |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It looked like a firework, a bright ball of light at the lead with a downward trajectory from L to R, and than a tail of about 15 big sparks. I was on the phone with a friend who was coming back from Philadelphia Pa headed on route 55 south and she said, I just saw a shooting star, and I told her what I saw. We described it, and for both of us we thought it looked like a firework. Plus we saw the same thing at the same time. it looked like a very bright but short lived firework |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | not sure what you mean by fragmentation, but it was a big bang with an exploding tail -- not a streak |