Reports Report 2020c (Event 2020-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Eliah M |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I have the Starry Night college software, and we fast forwarded time to six pm earlier today and saw a comet in the sky. I don’t know if their is any correlation between the fireball we saw, it looked to be in same area that the comet was supposed to be seen in. Although their was about 3 hours between them. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Kerrville, TX |
| Latitude | 29° 57' 59.75'' N (29.966598°) |
| Longitude | 99° 6' 35.32'' W (-99.109811°) |
| Elevation | 499.661255m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-04-26 21:30 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-04-27 02:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 152° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 230° |
| First azimuth | 230° |
| First elevation | 64° |
| Last azimuth | 235° |
| Last elevation | 49° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -4 |
| Color | Light Green, Yellow, Light Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 4s |
| Length | 15° |
| Remarks | Glowing train that got bigger and brighter |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Their was a bright light than it dimmed then a large flash of bright yellow and green that was 3x larger than the first flash. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The flash looked like it fragmented into several directions downward. |