Reports Report 5891k (Event 5891-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Anna H |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | At first I came home and told my boyfriend about the HUGE shooting star I saw go across the sky right in front of me while I was driving down the highway. But then when I started to look up online to see if perhaps anybody else saw it or had footage of it i began to think maybe i had actually seen a fireball. It wasnt like the enormous green fireball i saw last year but it was the biggest shooting star I'd ever seen besides the green fireball i saw last year!! It went about half of its path in the sky and then burst a bit, not huge burst, and then the second half of its trip across the skye was even brighter than the first but continued to travel in a singular streak like it had before the burst. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Fairfield, IA |
| Latitude | 40° 56' 4.54'' N (40.934594°) |
| Longitude | 91° 56' 53.52'' W (-91.948201°) |
| Elevation | 230.011475m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-10-15 23:12 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-10-16 04:12 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 240° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 358.5° |
| First azimuth | 36.07° |
| First elevation | 63° |
| Last azimuth | 347.17° |
| Last elevation | 15° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -8 |
| Color | White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | I saw a small burst as it hit the atmosphere. It wasnt like the fireball I saw a year and a half ago, which was bigger and lit the entire landscape like daylight, but if it wasnt a fireball then it was absolutely the BIGGEST shooting star I've ever seen!!! |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |