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Originally Posted by ManOnTheMoon
Well if I held my hand up and lined it up with venus then id say maybe 1 and a half hand widths south! I do remember a satelite moving across the sky near venus for about 2 seconds then it went dark and i couldnt see it anymore. Then maybe 1 min later I saw the quick but very bright flash south of that location. But looked to bright to be sunlight comming off a satelite!
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Matt some satellites such as the HST and ISS plus many others can reflect light twice or more as bright as Venus,upto about Magnitude -9.
What you saw was definitely a Satellite