Astronomy question - What did we see?
Looking at the clear sky through my finderscope I have seen something like a faint star (faint compared to other stars visible through my finderscope) but it was moving very fast. It did not blink like an airplane, (I have seen several airplanes at night, btw. they are flying that low that you can make it out the wings, etc. clearly) and it could not be seen by the naked eye (my eyesight is ok and seeing conditions were good, I could see 6-7 stars @ Pleiades). It was moving that fast that I had to move the finderscope pretty fast (I have already tracked planes successfully at night, but this was faster). Bottom line: it was not visible by the naked eye and it made no sound.
I had a 10 mm eyepiece in my 8 inch 200/1200 Skywatcher Flextube. My mother was there so she was looking through the eyepiece while I was tracking the object with the finderscope (putting the crosshair before it) . I think the focus was ok when she looked, and she said it was like a star moving through the field of view in less than a second at several occasions. When I wanted to take a look too I have lost track of the object.
What did we see most likely? A meteor? A comet? Some kind of special aircraft?
Best wishes, trickybilly
Last edited by trickybilly; 14-02-2014 at 07:24 AM.
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