Well, it could be anything. But I am treating it as a space object. It presents me with an issue which I have not had to deal with when it comes to my basic knowledge of astronomy.
I'm going to see if I can track it. I'm going to go through the steps I would logically use to find the object in space. I am going to try and do it without referring to an astronomy book for reference. I am allowing myself the treat of being able to refer to math books.
I have devised a 3 step method for my own purposes which should allow me to identify the direction(s) in which the object would be tracking. A graphic appears below which details the basics of what I will have to do.
Step one is to identify a line of angle between the sun and the moon. To do this I will find the angle of a shadow in the large crater that appears in the photo with the object. It is the prominent crater which I shall have to identify. The shadow forms a triangle, the angles of which, can be deduced through simple Pythagorean style math and a trignometry table(?). Step 2 involves bisecting the line created between the sun and the moon in step 1. The bisected line will indicate the direction that the object takes. Coincidentally, it also indicates the position of the Earth in relation to the Sun on one vector. Step 3 involves working out the possible range of eliptical orbits that the object will take. We have as a foci on one point the Sun and it remains to see what the second foci will be. I dare say that a guess would suggest that the second foci incorporates the Earth, but I am not certain as yet.
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