{"id":1249,"date":"2010-11-08T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2010-11-08T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T13:11:50","slug":"fireball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/fireball-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving back home after picking up the books from the auditor when I saw a great big fireball. It was 17:41 EST in the west north west.  I was just coming up to the county line from Frontenac to L&#038;A on Colebrook Road, approx lat 44.3984, long -76.7340  (use maps.google.ca and the New! LatLngToolTip feature that gives you lat\/long where you point).<\/p>\n<p>I noticed it at about 45 degrees elevation in the twilight.  It was<br \/>\nbright!  Brighter than mag -4 or -6?<br \/>\nIt lasted longer than 5 second and maintained a steady brightness<br \/>\nwithout losing any bits.  No trail that I could see.  The path ended about 10 degrees off the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/concam\/\">SCO allsky camera <\/a>started up at 17:45 now and in any event, that time image was still very bright and washed out and would not have caught this one \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve changed the start time to 17:30 EST now in any event (as of this morning) and the image capture will stop at 06:00 ESTm both times well into twilight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving back home after picking up the books from the auditor when I saw a great big fireball. It was 17:41 EST in the west north west. I was just coming up to the county line from Frontenac to L&#038;A on Colebrook Road, approx lat 44.3984, long -76.7340 (use maps.google.ca and the New! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}