Observer | |
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Name | Bela M |
Experience Level | 2/5 |
Remarks | From my point of sight the fireball speed seemed to be too slow to be a meteor. Altough I could not guess the distance, based on the speed and color of light I would rather guess it was some sort of bigger space debris. |
Location | |
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Address | Tokod (HU) |
Latitude | 47° 44' 14.28'' N (47.737301°) |
Longitude | 18° 40' 17.76'' E (18.671599°) |
Elevation | 109.24176m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2017-10-17 23:20 CEST |
UT Date & Time | 2017-10-17 21:20 UT |
Duration | ≈3.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up right to down left |
Descent Angle | 190° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 60° |
First azimuth | 60° |
First elevation | 50° |
Last azimuth | 55° |
Last elevation | 25° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -20 |
Color | Green main lightball and trail, with wide spreading orange sparks |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 3s |
Length | 25° |
Remarks | Train was rather glowing as smoke, it was visible on every point of the track about 3 seconds long after the main body crossed the point. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Light power of green main fire body was vibrating and the fragmentation was sperading on about a 10 degrees openinc trail, fragments were lighting in orange, with small orange trails. It looked a bit like firework spark tracks. |