On Wednesday the 15th at 6.50 am I witnessed a "satellite" which was as bright as Venus, easily the brightest object I have ever seen in the dawn sky that was moving. I held my hand out at arms length and it was taking 1 second to cover a handspan. It was brighter than any object I have seen at night moving, just magnificent. The sun cleared the horizon 12 minutes later.
It appeared roughly in the sth west, moving to nth east at a huge rate of knots. Was visible for 5 minutes, travelling dead straight, not an Iridium flare IMO.
I couldnt find it on Jtrack.
Any ideas?
BTW, on one of my 2 am nocturnal 1 minute obs from the backayarda the other week, I saw a meteorite through the clouds, that is a first for me. Lasted about 3 seconds, heading east to s/w about 50 degrees above the horizon.
Im on the bay, hardly see anything looking south, what I see seems to always be heading roughly e/w which is a lighter sky than my clear dark sky to the south.
That would have been the ISS, the pass for my location (Tassie) was around that time. If you go to heavens above , sign up and put in your lat/long you can get predictions, useful for impressing your friends etc at barbecues....
