xalien88, do you have a vid of the event? I clicked your user name and found a vid of a rocket launch at Fish Lake. I used to go there many times as a kid and I'm also into HPR. As a matter of fact, I'm the owner of PML.
I saw a fireball like that many years ago. It was as if someone had lit a big box of matches and threw it across the sky. It was bright enough to briefly cast shadows. The trail left behind is not a smoke trail, it's an ion trail - the energy from the fireball strips electrons from atoms in the atmosphere which cases the atoms to glow as the electrons recombine with them. Usually the glow is greenish. The trail I saw lasted 25 minutes, deformed by upper atmosphere winds, just like in the video.
xalien88, do you have a vid of the event? I clicked your user name and found a vid of a rocket launch at Fish Lake. I used to go there many times as a kid and I'm also into HPR. As a matter of fact, I'm the owner of PML.
dsoimaging 10 months ago
The all sky camera I operate near Lapeer, MI also recorded this - but at starting at 05:09:48
xalien88 10 months ago
I saw a fireball like that many years ago. It was as if someone had lit a big box of matches and threw it across the sky. It was bright enough to briefly cast shadows. The trail left behind is not a smoke trail, it's an ion trail - the energy from the fireball strips electrons from atoms in the atmosphere which cases the atoms to glow as the electrons recombine with them. Usually the glow is greenish. The trail I saw lasted 25 minutes, deformed by upper atmosphere winds, just like in the video.
drkev 2 years ago