I was observing the Sun yesterday afternoon with my Lunt 35mm scope when over a period of a few minutes I saw 5 black dot-like objects separately pass across the face of the Sun in a linear path. I have seen this before over a number of years but usually only one or at most two objects. I have seen them at different times of the day and different months of the year. I have wondered what they could be -Satellites?, Balloons? Planes?? out of focus birds?? (I don't believe in UFOs)
They always look the same - same size and appear like small black dots (like 'ball bearings'). Another member of our society (ASNSW) has also seen and videoed them independently of myself and showed a video of one of them at a talk given at this years star party.
I managed to capture videos of 2 of them and was wondering if anyone knew what the are? Have any of the regular solar observers seen them as well?
Here are links to the videos
Sun_155215
https://vimeo.com/140565032
Sun_155020
https://vimeo.com/140565024
Also a couple of images attached.
RichardJ
