(meteorobs) Wonderful turquoise fireball ! - New Mexico

[Bill Cooke]

The NASA cameras located in Las Cruces and Mayhill also picked up this very nice and long-lasting meteor. The Mayhill camera saturated at magnitude -6 and I would put the peak magnitude of this event at about -8 based on the video.

Pics at

http://www.billcooke.org/events/NM_20120101/ev_20120101_031536A_05A.png
http://www.billcooke.org/events/NM_20120101/ev_20120101_031540A_06A.png

QuickTime movie of the meteor as seen from Mayhill:

http://www.billcooke.org/events/NM_20120101/ev_20120101_031536A_05A.png

Hopefully will have a solution in the morning when the server correlates events.

Sent from my iPad
Bill

On Dec 31, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at heliotown.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
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