Dim Sattelite ID

I was out trying to find the Macholz comet with my newtonian, and
something came into my field of view. It was very dim, maybe mag. 4 or
so and traveled from between the Taurus and Perseus constellations
toward the northeast. This was about 19:25 EST 06 Jan 2005. I also saw
one VERY similar in the same place at about 19:45 EST 06 Jan 2005. I
couldn't find these on heavens-above.com although the first one MAY
have been the Cosmos 1315 although the time was a little off.

Lat/Lon: 34.6806=B0 N, 83.1064=B0 W
Elevation: 287 Meters

Any ideas? These can't be jets right? They blink and are brighter than
mag. 4 right?

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I was out trying to find the Macholz comet with my newtonian, and
something came into my field of view. It was very dim, maybe mag. 4 or
so and traveled from between the Taurus and Perseus constellations
toward the northeast. This was about 19:25 EST 06 Jan 2005. I also saw
one VERY similar in the same place at about 19:45 EST 06 Jan 2005. I
couldn't find these on heavens-above.com although the first one MAY
have been the Cosmos 1315 although the time was a little off.

Lat/Lon: 34.6806° N, 83.1064° W
Elevation: 287 Meters

Any ideas? These can't be jets right? They blink and are brighter than
mag. 4 right?

Just the other night I was out taking some pics of Machholz
with my digital camera. The camera is piggybacked onto my
scope. It's an older scope and has no tracking, so I was
doing the tracking manually, which is ok for the 60 second
exposures.

Anyway, I was using one of the stars in the Pleides as my
guide star and following it at 200x when an airliner passed
right through the field of view. It was quite startling.

It also happened so fast that I'd have blinked I'd have
missed it!

That particular image shows the airliner trailing nicely
right through the cluster.

Brian
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