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Originally Posted by jenchris
There was a case a few years back here on the Gold Coast - three large V shaped occultations of the sky - about 14km on a side over M1 at Gaven
At least a dozen people I know saw something but couldn't photo it - it was black on a dark night - just the stars disappeared - and the sky was 'darker'
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I'm just a bit puzzled how to measure something in the sky... 14km object 14 km away would take up a sizeable chunk of the sky, but you would have to know the distance to calculate the size, and if it were closer, bigger again. How did they measure the size? And if they blocked the stars wouldn't startrails shown exactly what was in the sky?
You know a mate has an astronomy education site and got a couple of calls that the "Moon disappeared then reappeared then disappeared" earlier this month. I saw it too, it that really strange and rare phenonoma that amateurs hardly ever see... I believe it is called clouds
