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Originally Posted by astroron
30 seconds really?,  and you saw no sign of movement 
If you had a pair of binoculars,you would have probably seen it as a satellite.
Iridium satellites are not the only satellites that flair.
Reports like this have no value with out times hight angle etc.
When a satellite is heading away it is harder to tell that it is not stationary especially in twilight.
How ever good heavens above is it doesn't tell you all the satellites and space junk out there.
Best of luck in finding out what your bright light is,but with so little information I don't like your chances. 
Cheers  |
No movement unless it was coming straight at me.
I was going through aligning at the time and looked up and saw a dim star appear from nowhere. As I watched it got brighter by a few magnitude. No transition of brightness just dim to really bright. It lasted long enough to consider removing the camera off my scope.
I thought maybe I saw a plane in rapid decent into Adelaide. Then I saw this thread after posting mine to see how far it was.
If we all saw the same thing in three state no way it was a flare, a satellite or meteorite.
As per Dan 1st post. I saw it grow in brightness but it didnt fade out to me. Just went off