Reports Report 4188fh (Event 4188-2022)
| Observer | |
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| Name | Paul Z |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | I want to stress that I did not personally see this fireball. My back was turned the opposite direction at the time. I was testing out a Wyze v3 Camera on a tripod on my back porch for use as a night sky camera. I had it pointed East-Northeast near zenith. While I was getting the camera pointed it was recording to its internal memory card. I thought I saw headlights shine off the side of my neighbors' house, then I thought I saw a lightning flash from very distant thunderstorms (though the flash seemed so bright that I wondered if it was something else at the time). It was only because I saw a post on social media from a local news station about a bright meteor that I realized that I may have recorded it. I retrieved the memory card from my camera nearly 12 hours later to see that it had indeed captured the fireball! The information entered here is from the video and not from what I saw with my eyes. |
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| Location | |
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| Address | Indianapolis, IN |
| Latitude | 39° 39' 34.94'' N (39.659705°) |
| Longitude | 86° 3' 0.11'' W (-86.05003°) |
| Elevation | 254.722733m |
| Time and Duration | |
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| Local Date & Time | 2022-07-22 01:51 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2022-07-22 05:51 UT |
| Duration | ≈7.5s |
| Direction | |
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| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 170° |
| Moving | |
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| Facing azimuth | 355.1° |
| First azimuth | 346.09° |
| First elevation | 90° |
| Last azimuth | 327.97° |
| Last elevation | 40° |
| Brightness and color | |
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| Stellar Magnitude | -14 |
| Color | White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
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| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
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| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
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| Observation | Unknown |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
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| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | My back was turned while the camera was running in the back yard, but I can say that the side of my neighbors' house lit up as if a car's headlights were shining on it, as it fell, and there was a flash at the end like close lightning. |
| Fragmentation | |
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| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |