Reports Report 1736a (Event 1736-2021)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | John M |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | This was just simply stunning. I was doubting the veracity of what I was viewing it was so amazing until my coworker sent me a text "I just saw the brightest most epic meteor ever" And she was in Bellevue, approximately 10-15 miles to the east of me. and she saw it through full tree cover. It was just stunning. I felt like I could see the fragments rotating as they came off... there was a discrete sense of dimensional imagery that I have never seen in 30-40 meteor showers I have intentionally gone off and observed. Big enough and odd enough so I found your website. Just stunning. Left my jaw hanging. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Seattle, WA |
| Latitude | 47° 32' 34.85'' N (47.543015°) |
| Longitude | 122° 21' 17.99'' W (-122.354998°) |
| Elevation | 80.768089m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2021-03-19 02:09 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2021-03-19 09:09 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 253° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 180.23° |
| First azimuth | 179.11° |
| First elevation | 62° |
| Last azimuth | 120.4° |
| Last elevation | 53° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -8 |
| Color | Blue, Dark Green, Green, Orange, Red, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 3s |
| Length | 30° |
| Remarks | glittering train with green and orange fragmentation and multiple debris fragmeting and generating separate trains of 5 degrees. Stunning, beyond any of the Perseid or Pleiades |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Terminal flash was more of a multitude of smaller fragments. about the size of my thumb... 10 times the size of a shooting star... If it has been straight up it would have looked mike a small firework. I was doubting it was a comet and wondering if it was a homemade munition or missile except my coworker saw it also 30 miles to the east in Bellevue through the trees. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | 4-5 fragments on par with what i have seen watching the Perseid shower. Really unlike anything I have ever seen. the fragments were coming off long enough that I was able to get my phone out of my pocket and unlocked. Fragments were leaving trails after the main body had disintegrated. |