Reports Report 394bf (Event 394-2026)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jessica H |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | I don’t watch meteor observing experience but I do stare at the sky every night and take pictures of the ‘moon rays’ so I’m very familiar with night sky and nothing I’ve seen has ever even began to look anything like what I saw. I was in utter awe of it. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Woodacre, CA |
| Latitude | 38° 0' 31.98'' N (38.008883°) |
| Longitude | 122° 38' 14.79'' W (-122.637441°) |
| Elevation | 121.628525m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2026-01-15 00:40 PST |
| UT Date & Time | 2026-01-15 08:40 UT |
| Duration | ≈20s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 269° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 185° |
| First azimuth | 270.22° |
| First elevation | 39° |
| Last azimuth | 139.29° |
| Last elevation | 29° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -13 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It sounded like a distant sparkler like the ones you put on a cake or light on the 4th of July |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 3s |
| Length | 10° |
| Remarks | I don’t think I answered the ‘length of the train’ question correctly I’m a bit confused on the example but like I stated before it took up at the very least 1/4-1/2 of the skyline. I wish I could draw it for you. It was incredibly long, but the end would dissipated as it moved forward, but a consistent bright looong train. It was absolutely incredible I’ve never seem anything close to it at all and I take pictures of the sky almost every night -of course I had left my phone inside :( - it would have been AMAZING to capture such a beautiful special event. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |