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Originally Posted by RKenning
I snapped a shot in Port Lincoln yesterday at around 8 am. iPhone app-Skyview- designated it as ST16 R/B. Apparently Russian, and has been up there for a while.
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ST16 R/B may well have been in the sky at the time, but what you saw is much closer - and much, much brighter!
What you saw is actually a NASA balloon - more observation reports here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=145779
You can read about it here:
http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/newzealand/wanaka.htm
and see the track here:
http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/map/balloon9/Google669NT.htm