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Unknown Sighting 2007/10/24 - Any Suggestions?
Hello All,
At approximately 08:30 (Central Daylight Time) I was looking at the contrails of several jets in the sky when I noticed a bright point of light, azimuth east, altitude approximately 80 degrees. I'm too much of an amateur to speculate on the magnitude but it was pretty bright. My location at the time was very close to Latitude: 49.916436°, Longitude: -97.209432°. It appeared to be stationary (or very slow-moving) and as I was on a bus at the time I only had about 3 or 4 minutes to watch it before the bus turned and I could no longer see it. My bus dropped me off about 2 minutes later, but by then I could no longer see it. The sun had already started to rise, but clouds in the eastern sky were obscuring it. There were no other stars visible in the sky. During the sighting it may have grown dimmer. I've seen Iridium flares, and the lack of mobility and the duration of the sighting leads me to believe I witnessed a planet (maybe Venus?) or a stationary satellite, but I was unable to determine what it was on Heaven's Above. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Clayton |
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Unknown Sighting 2007/10/24 - Any Suggestions?
In article , "Clayton Rumley" wrote:
Hello All, At approximately 08:30 (Central Daylight Time) I was looking at the contrails of several jets in the sky when I noticed a bright point of light, azimuth east, altitude approximately 80 degrees. I'm too much of an amateur to speculate on the magnitude but it was pretty bright. My location at the time was very close to Latitude: 49.916436°, Longitude: -97.209432°. It appeared to be stationary (or very slow-moving) and as I was on a bus at the time I only had about 3 or 4 minutes to watch it before the bus turned and I could no longer see it. My bus dropped me off about 2 minutes later, but by then I could no longer see it. The sun had already started to rise, but clouds in the eastern sky were obscuring it. There were no other stars visible in the sky. During the sighting it may have grown dimmer. I've seen Iridium flares, and the lack of mobility and the duration of the sighting leads me to believe I witnessed a planet (maybe Venus?) or a stationary satellite, but I was unable to determine what it was on Heaven's Above. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Clayton I thinks that's what you saw, I was struck by how unusually bright Venus was here at my location on Vancouver Island. I think it may have been the brightest I have ever seen it, so much so that I stumbled out onto the very cold deck at 6am with the binoc's to try and confirm it wasn't landing lights. It was further SE than where I usually see it, and along a flight line for us, so it did look as bright as landing lights at a 1000ft approach. At the time that I noticed it, it was at about 30 deg. alt., around 130deg SE, and sank below our treeline in only about 8 minutes. And I did confirm that it was Venus using Heaven's Above. Mar's was also out and about 20 deg. above Venus, but very dim. I'll have to look again this morning if the weather holds. Sadly, the ISS and space shuttle is not in our area except for the last few days of this mission, I got spoiled for the last two where it was direct overhead every evening, and low in the west for the late orbit of the night.. I'm always amazed to look up there and notice two distinct objects flying by, very, very fast!!! d. |
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