Cheers coldspace.
I finally decided to sign up here after being impressed by my first "twilight contrail". I have only (relatively) recently gotten back into skygazing - that would have been at time of 2006's partial lunar eclipse (2006-09-08).
I've subscribed to Ian Musgrave's Southern Skywatch (ABC) for yonks, but only happened to get hooked on his blog (same time as 2006's PLE) after learning more on reliably viewing satellite flares, meteors and comets (Holmes and of course McNaught!).
This year, the annular solar eclipse (partial for us) was my personal highlight - having spent lots of phone calls and half a day to train to the Gold Coast just so that I could get my hands on an (naked eye) eclipse viewing filter that Brisbane didn't seem to usually stock. Well worth it and a nice 'surreal' experience; being my first solar eclipse of any kind.
My regular skygazing will generally coincide with bright Iridium flares or ISS passings (especially if there's a shuttle mission in progress). I never get bored of gaining a glimpse of the ever-habited space station orbiting 340km above our heads at 27,000km/h. Also, it's ever-satisfying when friends drop their jaw after you explain to them how people actually live in that bright 'moving spot' in the sky receiving 15 sunrises a day - if NASA would actually let them stay up all night!
I did some Image Googling to and found that the one on Saturday looked somewhat similar to the shorter trails on this page:
http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/200...ce-of-man.html