Reports Report 3787t (Event 3787-2016)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pierre B |
| Experience Level | 1/5 |
| Remarks | I am not an astronomer, but I always looked to the sky since I am very young, nights and days. What a saw on Wednesday, October 5th was amazing. I never saw anything like that before. I will try to build a reconstitution picture that I will send here to a television reporter just to know who else could have seen it. I am sure that many people saw it too, it was too obvious. It was so bright that I think we would have seen it during the middle of the day. It was beautiful and jaw dropping. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Gatineau, Québec (CA) |
| Latitude | 45° 29' 15.88'' N (45.487745°) |
| Longitude | 75° 44' 19.68'' W (-75.7388°) |
| Elevation | 81.179m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2016-10-05 20:23 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2016-10-06 00:23 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From left to right |
| Descent Angle | 90° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 280.24° |
| First azimuth | 257.92° |
| First elevation | 38° |
| Last azimuth | 312.88° |
| Last elevation | 27° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -13 |
| Color | White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | There was many fireballs, really obvious to the eyes. As I remember, there was three or for big fireballs, shaped oval with long trails behind, there was too smaller fragments in between. Hoping it is not my imagination here, I think I saw too dark fragments within some fireballs. It was crossing the sky at an estimated speed of at least 7 to 10 times the speed of the International Orbital Station. |