> Date: 3 Aug 99 04:27:00 CDT > From: Ed Cannon <edcannonutaustin@netscape.net> > Subject: A possible satellite observation? > [ ... ] > "A Starlike Glow on the Gibbous Moon" > the light on the Moon lasted several minutes Purely by chance, I was talking to Ed Popp this morning about some similar observations that he has made. One of them was a grazing occultation, which I think we can eliminate in this case, since the light did not appear to move relative to the moon. The other, however, was the sunlit tip of a mountain being framed on either side and below by two other peaks in shadow in the foreground, producing what appeared to be a freestanding point of light that was motionless relative to the moon. It seems unlikely that the observation could have been of a satellite, because of the relative motion issues. --Sue (worden@fc.net)