Reports Report 7589aa (Event 7589-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Evan C |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I am between 3 and 4. I actively seek meteorological events and meteor showers and greatly enjoy them, like to have them explained and read about them, but no deeper than publicly available outlets and reports. I would not go so far as to say I am an amateur astronomer. What I saw was amazing. Impossible, I know, but I would give anything to be able to predict the next one and have everyone in my family facing the right direction at the right time. My fiance turned around to just catch the last instant. I grew up in the rural South, am an avid hiker/camper, have traveled the world and have seen many many a shooting star, I've even been lucky enough to photograph more than one above amazing landscapes. This was like nothing I have ever seen. It was wonderfully special, and so early in the evening! If there is any official report, or professional observation of what I saw, I would love to hear about what it was. It was googling the date and area to see if there was any info that brought me here. Glad I ran across this website, what a great project! |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Troy, OH |
| Latitude | 40° 3' 19.79'' N (40.055498°) |
| Longitude | 84° 9' 10.49'' W (-84.152914°) |
| Elevation | 277.044678m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-12-10 19:30 EST |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-12-11 00:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 261° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 46.8° |
| First azimuth | 60.1° |
| First elevation | 21° |
| Last azimuth | 47.67° |
| Last elevation | 19° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -12 |
| Color | I am red/green colorblind, but it was one of the most truly fire colored sky events I have ever seen. I have done lots of stargazing and seem any meteor showers. Where most are streaks of white light at best, this was a sparking ball of fire! yellow/red t |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | 12° |
| Remarks | Only visible as long as the object was. I would say that it was as likely to be a trail of light in my vision as it was a physical train, but it remained fixed to the object's trajectory, not my vision so I will report it as a train. Visually it was akin to a faint smoke trail / boat wake (though in the time it was visible did not expand rapidly as a wake would.) If it lingered, it was not visible without the light from the fireball. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Sparking as it crossed the sky. The sparks appeared behind and around, but none lingered any longer than a spark, and they did not linger as a tail any further than one fireball's diameter behind the fireball |