Reports Report 1127aa (Event 1127-2014)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Adam C |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | In all my years of looking for meteors, even the 2002 Leonid shower, this one I saw accidentally was the most beautiful thing I've seen! It was not moving at a fast speed and was moving slow enough that as I was driving I saw it rise up above the trees to my right, which I thought it was a fire work, and then it moved to the left, and I actually was then driving under where it had passed over and I saw that tale as it came down, by the time I thought to reach for my phone to get a picture it had passed behind the trees on the other side, but it burned that beautiful tale in my brain, it was amazing |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Buford, GA |
| Latitude | 34° 3' 33.94'' N (34.059427°) |
| Longitude | 83° 57' 29.95'' W (-83.95832°) |
| Elevation | 339.000732m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2014-05-15 21:33 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2014-05-16 01:33 UT |
| Duration | ≈20s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down right to up left |
| Descent Angle | 305° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 58.37° |
| First azimuth | 79.27° |
| First elevation | 30° |
| Last azimuth | 312.37° |
| Last elevation | 50° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -7 |
| Color | Light Blue, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 30s |
| Length | 15° |
| Remarks | It looked like the tale of a close up comet in the computer generations- at first it thought it was a firework as it rose above the trees, and it appeared in vision to be that low in the sky until I noticed that it had this huge beautiful comet like tale and debris coming off it, and leaving the tale and did not vanish from view until it went behind the trees out of site again, I don't know when it burned out |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It was coming off of the fireball much like a computer generation you would see on TV of a comets tale and some "spark" looking parts just hung in the air for a moment, but the main portion did not break up of fragment |