Reports Report 2619az (Event 2619-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Carl M |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | Among the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen in the night sky in person. The crowd around us at the bar saw it too, and someone asked afterwards, jokingly, if there was a fireball on the horizon. It was large and bright enough that we expected a boom, which never came. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Durham, NC |
| Latitude | 35° 59' 46.59'' N (35.996274°) |
| Longitude | 78° 54' 1.7'' W (-78.900473°) |
| Elevation | 125.1707m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-05-13 22:20 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-05-14 02:20 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 102° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 97.17° |
| First azimuth | 81.22° |
| First elevation | 61° |
| Last azimuth | 80.99° |
| Last elevation | 15° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -14 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow, Light Yellow, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | Bright at first, dimmed a bit (almost disappearing), then grew much, much brighter (at least as bright as the moon, which was just about full. Second phase lasted, I’d guess, 1 second and 0.5 second. Second phase I could resolve what looked like a trail of cool white particles, and in the last third of its visible trajectory they turned to warmer, yellowish colors. The yellower particles especially seemed to swirl for a fraction of a second. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | I could make out what seemed to be individual swirling particles in the tail of the thing. The initial tail expanded towards the end of the trajectory following a momentary dimming. The tail in that second phase of brightness had a maximum apparent width that was roughly like the width of the number two pencils or perhaps my thumb, held at arms length from my face. |