Hi all: Yeahhhhhhhhh..... this is interesting. I had my 6" Maksutov out to look at the Moon and was working at 60x. Now the weird part. I looked up and saw a red light which I thought was a satellite moving just a bit slower than ISS passes. What caught my attention was that there were NO green or white flashing lights, the red light was steady. I tried following the object with the Mak. and saw no green or white flashing lights, the red "light" was steady and it was like a comet and coma, a point source with 2 faint reddish jets to either side. Now, I did have to focus the scope and the object just missed passing over the Moon near 2356 UT by about 1/4 degree. I just could see a silouette of the object but not get a real good determination as to shape. But, I'm just puzzled that there was no normal aircraft lights noted. Date: August 21/22 Time: 2355-2359 UT Place: Halifax,Nova Scotia Lat: N44d 39' Long: W63d 36' Object first seen overhead just pass Vega. It color was red and no other aircraft lights seen,no sound either. Estimated mag naked eye close to Vega (0 Mv).Missed Moon near 2356 UT. In scope it was just a steady reddish point of light and probaly cast it's glow as there were 2 faint reddish jet like protuberances on each side. It faded out about 3-5 degrees below the Moon. Speed was a little less than ISS passes. And I had to re-focus on it so the Moon *was* out-of-focus. My unusal observation... I guess...I'll assume it *was a plane but not to see the regular FLASHING red,green,white is what caught my eye. Any ideas? Clear skies ---------- Michael Boschat Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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