Reports Report 3520bt (Event 3520-2020)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Denise G |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | I noticed this when I was photographing Comet Neowise. What I think happened is I looked away from the camera (which pointed at the comet) as the shutter was timing down an exposure, probably 20 seconds. (I took a variety of timed exposures.) I was looking almost due north, and saw this fireball! It lasted long enough for me to tell a friend who was behind and to the right of me working with a telescope, and he had time to look up and see the fireball also! He called out a time of 10:53 pm. I got a text from another friend south of me in the Ramona, Oklahoma area (who was also out photographing the comet) asking if I'd seen a fireball, and his text came through at 10:50 p.m. The fireball he observed was orange rather than yellow to him. The trajectory was the same, so I think it was probably the same fireball even though the time called out to me of 10:53 p.m. was several minutes' different. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Bartlesville, OK |
| Latitude | 36° 45' 51.18'' N (36.764216°) |
| Longitude | 95° 54' 46.44'' W (-95.912901°) |
| Elevation | 226.45575m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2020-07-18 22:53 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2020-07-19 03:53 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down left to up right |
| Descent Angle | 87° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 352° |
| First azimuth | 3° |
| First elevation | 25° |
| Last azimuth | 80° |
| Last elevation | 23° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -17 |
| Color | - |
| 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 | The fireball was a bright yellow ball, but behind it was what looked like two bright yellow or yellow-brown filaments that stuck straight out of the fireball to the west. (Fireball was heading east.) Kind of looked like two straight hangnails hanging out behind the fireball. Or a round spaceship with two straight filaments sticking out at the back of it. |