Reports Report 1302g (Event 1302-2013)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ashton C |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | Three of us saw this event; it looked like a blue-hot roman candle ball. Because of the brightness and fragmentation, we wondered if in fact it was someone shooting fireworks...but saw and heard nothing else before or after. Our time-hack should be fairly accurate, as I noted it off my (geekily accurate) watch just after the event. We were in the driveway of a house, looking east at the house - and the object appeared at the left limb of the house, so the starting azimuth I've marked is where we first saw it (the actual start would have been obscured by the house but almost certainly a more easterly azimuth. I am a casual amateur astronomer, but haven't focused on meteors. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Dallas, TX |
| Latitude | 32° 44' 25.54'' N (32.740429°) |
| Longitude | 96° 50' 29.83'' W (-96.84162°) |
| Elevation | 168.909637m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2013-06-21 22:33 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2013-06-22 03:33 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From right to left |
| Descent Angle | 270° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 36.53° |
| First azimuth | 59.53° |
| First elevation | 34° |
| Last azimuth | 343.46° |
| Last elevation | 24° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -8 |
| Color | Light Blue |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | At least one large fragment separated in the last 1/3 of the arc we observed - maybe 1/10 of the main brightness. Could have been some smaller others. |