Observer | |
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Name | c P |
Experience Level | 1/5 |
Remarks | It looked so big and so close, never seen anything like this before. It looked like a ball of fire. A friend of mine saw it too, it might have lasted slightly less than 10 seconds, I think it was about 10 seconds -- first glimpsed it I think via peripheral vision. |
Location | |
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Address | Irvine, CA |
Latitude | 33° 37' 54.18'' N (33.631717°) |
Longitude | 117° 50' 0.78'' W (-117.833549°) |
Elevation | 71.86m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2017-12-24 17:15 PST |
UT Date & Time | 2017-12-25 01:15 UT |
Duration | ≈20s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up left to down right |
Descent Angle | 115° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 149.14° |
First azimuth | 102.67° |
First elevation | 60° |
Last azimuth | 189.76° |
Last elevation | 20° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -14 |
Color | Orange, Yellow, Red |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Remarks | Hard to tell bc it was already loud out with Christmas festivities |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Remarks | Hard to tell bc it was already loud out with Christmas festivities |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Duration | - |
Length | - |
Remarks | - |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Towards the very end the light got really big, even bigger than the beginning when I first noticed, significantly bigger. It was huge thing that was flying and even bigger fire at the end. |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Remarks | - |