Reports Report 6140l (Event 6140-2019)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Will H |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | I don't want this to be the only fireball I ever see... All told, though, I honestly rate the experience right up next to the level of the total solar eclipse of August 2017 (I saw that at 99.8%, from the Cahokia Mounds site a bit North of St. Louis.) |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Lake Zurich, IL |
| Latitude | 42° 14' 9.12'' N (42.235868°) |
| Longitude | 88° 6' 24.17'' W (-88.106713°) |
| Elevation | 262.998871m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2019-12-02 21:35 CST |
| UT Date & Time | 2019-12-03 03:35 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 176° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 304° |
| First azimuth | 299.18° |
| First elevation | 79° |
| Last azimuth | 311° |
| Last elevation | 35° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -6 |
| Color | Light Green, Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 0.5s |
| Length | 10° |
| Remarks | Short-lived greenish yellow (maybe a tiny bit orange?) streak behind the ball itself; it split as the ball broke into 2 or more segments. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The whole experience seemed like a terminal flash, actually, bigger and brighter than any non-lunar object I've ever seen in the night sky in the 40+ years of my lifetime. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The biggest chunk remained traveling in its original direction, and the small extra bit or two skewed slightly downward from that angle toward the horizon below. |