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Originally Posted by jase
Hi Barb,
If you were looking in a northerly direction and the object appeared to motionless, I would say you saw a geostationary satellite. Geostationary satellites generally orbit the earth at the same speed of earth’s rotation, hence appear stationary.
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I agree. Cetus lies on the celestial equator so it would make perfect sense to me.
People looking at Orion's belt often see geostationary sats too, since the equator runs right through it! So check the position of this blink and if it is near the celestial equator that's probably it.