(meteorobs) Wonderful turquoise fireball ! - New Mexico

[Thomas Ashcraft]

Here are two movie captures that I hastily processed for the sake of 
rapid meteor reporting:

4 MB  .mp4  Full seventeen second visible meteor trajectory in black and 
white.  And most of the forward scatter radio reflection.  1 minute 
seven second movie.
http://www.heliotown.com/FBS20120101_0315utBW_Ashcraft.mp4

2 MB movie  . mp4  Sentinel all-sky capture  ( false color ) which got 
the first eight seconds of the visual meteor before reaching the limit 
of the capture file.
http://www.heliotown.com/FBS20120101_0315utHE_Ashcraft.mp4

More processing later.

Clear skies,
Thomas



On 12/31/11 8:25 PM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
> Dec 31, 2011 - 8:15 pm   ( Jan 01, 2012  0315 UT)
>
> Wow.  There was a beautiful turquoise large magnitude fireball  ( maybe
> -11 or so -  hard to say since I saw it through a window )  that just
> occurred heading from southeast to northwest over north central New Mexico.
>
> What a blessing to see it live and I also caught it on camera.  There
> should be many reports on this fireball since it is New Years Eve and
> people are out and about.
>
> Movie will be posted soon.
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> Thomas Ashcraft near Lamy, New Mexico
>
>