Reports Report 6425lk (Event 6425-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Nicholas C |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | My sister, Brianna, had first spotted the fireball before I did and grabbed my shoulders, forcing me to turn. She did it so fast. Her information might be the same as mine. But, we both know what we saw based on articles we've seen online about the event. The meteor had fragmented in that direction. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Latitude | 41° 40' 46.41'' N (41.679558°) |
| Longitude | 73° 50' 58.27'' W (-73.849519°) |
| Elevation | 122.485794m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-11-08 19:20 EST |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-11-09 00:20 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down left to up right |
| Descent Angle | 87° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 200° |
| First azimuth | 290° |
| First elevation | 60° |
| Last azimuth | 200° |
| Last elevation | 60° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -20 |
| Color | Dark Purple, Purple, Pink, Dark Blue, Blue, Light Blue, Orange, Yellow, Light Yellow, Red, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 2.5s |
| Length | 3° |
| Remarks | I did not get a good look at the train. Me and my sister both saw it and believe it disintegrated some ways in the direction we are facing since the fireball shattered into a whole spectrum of colors almost like Santa in the Polar Express. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It brightened for maybe a split second. It made a bunch of tiny bright spots in the sky and those spots flew in the direction the fireball was traveling, to the right of my point of view. The fragments then disappeared about 2.5 seconds after the fragmentation. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The fragments were beautiful. I have never seen anything like it on the internet. I probably saw every variant of every color except green and brown. I through it was a plane. But, it was actually a bunch of dots of all sorts of colors flying at different speeds, spreading in that same direction. The dots dimmed down until they vanished into the night sky. |