Reports Report 2567h (Event 2567-2018)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Sharon C |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | Feel free to contact me. It is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever seen in the sky, (only the best of aurora borealis I've seen gives it a run for the money) and while I am no kind of expert I love the night and night skies and look at them a lot. (And I have sleep issues and am often on the porch at odd times of night for a little tobacco, always with lights off so I can see the sky.) I would love to know if anyone else saw it. I hope so, because for the brief moments it lasted it was so gorgeous! I have a false horizon to the N/NE because of where I am on a mountain ridge, so angles in this report may be off unless the program can see the ridge and take it into account. Time is approximate, but it was close to 1:30am PDT. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Viola, ID |
| Latitude | 46° 51' 36.84'' N (46.860233°) |
| Longitude | 116° 59' 27.11'' W (-116.990863°) |
| Elevation | 959.682m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2018-07-21 01:30 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2018-07-21 08:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 96° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 121.44° |
| First azimuth | 147.26° |
| First elevation | 25° |
| Last azimuth | 108.22° |
| Last elevation | 22° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -11 |
| Color | Yellow-gold. Almost like glitter. |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | It was very golden, more like a child's imagining of "comet" than the meteor it must have been. I had never seen anything like it, and I am an old farmer/camper who has seen hundreds of meteors (shooting stars) flash by over the years. This was so fantastical with its glittering/sparking golden head and tail that I didn't know what I was seeing at first. And then it was gone and I was thinking it had to be a meteor unless it was something far less probably (a piece of human space debris coming in, a UFO, a missle). It absolutely was not anything like an airplane or satellite spotting. A glowing golden smooth head with a flashing, sparking tail that seemed to last longer than most meteor flashes. Not sure if I understood the part to get compass directions right, but the tail was More E the head was more headed NE. I am near the top of a ridge facing SW and have a false horizon to the NE, so the angles will not be the same as if I was down on flatland. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The trail was glittering/sparking like nothing I have ever seen, but the head was smoothly rounded and glowing a pure yellow-gold |