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Thanks for the replies everyone. The elements of doubt in me as a scientist nag that it may well have been a satellite, even as my observational experience says I'd have seen it move over the 15 seconds or so at that sky altitude. And thanks Bojan and Peter for the other obs - transient research appears to be developing a lot as all-sky surveying increases in sophistication. I'll be very interested in the paper Peter, I just wish I'd had a camera pointed there myself. With hindsight I might've grabbed the dslr off the scope I use in polar alignment, get the lens on it and image quickly, but I didn't realise it would be so strange till it started to fade in place! Ah hindsight, leaves you with no data, just anecdotes...
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