Reports Report 6015ar (Event 6015-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Marcia H |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | In my 63 years of life of frequent star gazing and meteor, comet watching I have NEVER seen anything that came close to this in size. I almost thought it was the full moon at first, but it is a crescent moon and this was bigger, blazing and falling. It was disorienting seeing it as it was so large, appeared so close to the earth as it dipped behind the hills I found myself crouching thinking it was huge and was going to impact. It was brief but a spectacular array of rainbow colors in its short debris field...a yellowish/white very large fireball and appeared very low in the sky. How magnificent! |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Umpqua, OR |
| Latitude | 43° 27' 42.42'' N (43.461783°) |
| Longitude | 123° 32' 14.32'' W (-123.537312°) |
| Elevation | 96.988518m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-10-22 20:05 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-10-23 03:05 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 110° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 65.91° |
| First azimuth | 54.78° |
| First elevation | 39° |
| Last azimuth | 76.85° |
| Last elevation | 37° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -24 |
| Color | Purple, Pink, Blue, Light Blue, Light Green, Yellow, Light Yellow, Red, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |