(meteorobs) Fwd: large bolide over California/Nevada

Esko Lyytinen esko.lyytinen at jippii.fi
Tue Apr 24 04:32:03 EDT 2012


You can see the shadows of the bushes. And it looks that the right side 
of the image is approaching the opposite of the Sun.
A quick lookup puts the Sun's direction as az=89 degrees and altitude 
angle 18 degrees, that is about East (the Sun).
Hope, I had the time correct in UT , 14:52 UT (?)

Esko


> Actually it is a picture of THE bolide event.
> I have talked to the picture taker. It was taken at 7:52 +/- 1 minute (correcting the camera time for known time. It was taken from Coordinates: 39.904146, -119.99288. Looking south (still trying to get an exact azimuth angle, I think it was more SSW or SW).
> Will let you know if I find out anything new and interesting.
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