(meteorobs) Wonderful turquoise fireball ! - New Mexico

[Bill Cooke]

Sorry, movie is at

http://www.billcooke.org/events/NM_20120101/ev_20120101_031540A_06A.mov

Too liberal with the cut and paste :/

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Bill

On Jan 1, 2012, at 1:13 AM, Bill Cooke <cookewj at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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