Observer | |
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Name | Davide P |
Experience Level | 5/5 |
Remarks | This is probabily the best fireball event I ever seen in my 25 years of astronomy. My sight was kidnapped by its first apparition and I was astonished during and the event as I couldn't find my phone to register notes. |
Location | |
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Address | , Apulia (IT) |
Latitude | 40° 58' 17.67'' N (40.97°) |
Longitude | 16° 18' 8.05'' E (16.3°) |
Elevation | 591.39m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2022-01-02 06:31 CET |
UT Date & Time | 2022-01-02 05:31 UT |
Duration | ≈7.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up right to down left |
Descent Angle | 265° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 247.58° |
First azimuth | 254.1° |
First elevation | 29° |
Last azimuth | 183.99° |
Last elevation | 15° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -7 |
Color | Light Blue, Green, Yellow, Light Yellow, Red, White |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | I heard a sound like leaves suddenly moved by a strong gust of wind, during the second time it fragmented in three further pieces. |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Remarks | - |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 1s |
Length | 3° |
Remarks | Every fragmentation released a little tail and then, while disappearing, it left a longer tail. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | The fireball, a slow fireball, fragmented in total five bright pieces further than the main one, twice in its path on the sky. Two pieces on first time and other three little pieces a second time. |