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Old 27-12-2007, 10:08 PM
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Strange light in sky

Hey guys:

At about 21:48, Sydney time, from Northern Beaches location, I saw a bright light travelling from north west to south east, about... 30 degrees above the horizon? It looked quite bright, I'd say... magnitude 1 to maybe -1? Orangy-whity colour.

It was travelling rather fast... I suppose about half as fast as your normal satellite appears.

No trail, so it wasn't a comet. There were no blinking lights, so not a plane (pretty sure on this, I'm a plane nut. Flight pattern didn't make sense)

My original thought was ISS. So I downloaded orbitron, but nope. Cosmos 1867 perhaps.

Anyone else see it? Any thoughts?

Anthony
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Old 27-12-2007, 10:24 PM
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I've just posted my observation from Melbourne of this light in another thread.

I assumed it was ISS. Isn't it....?
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Old 27-12-2007, 10:36 PM
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I also saw a bright light/object at around the same time as Anthony. It appeared to be a Orangy silver colour. It moved through the sky very fast and was only visible for 2 minutes max.

My first and only thought was the ISS. Unless it was a UFO.

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Old 27-12-2007, 11:03 PM
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I was watching that last night as well, a pretty spectacular sight. I'mpretty sure it was the ISS.

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Old 27-12-2007, 11:17 PM
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Yes, that would have been the ISS.

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSum...&alt=1&tz=AEST

Looks like you have a bright pass coming up tomorrow night 28th from about 20:32 to 20:37, magnitude -2.4. Tonight's was predicted to be -0.1 so tomorrow should be a beauty!
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Old 27-12-2007, 11:41 PM
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I got sensitive CCD camera set up to capture meteors images. Last night at about 21.00 I was watching monitor screen because there was patch of clear sky I have not seen for many days. I have noticed unusually high number of cosmic rays strikes that seem to hit CCD in same spot at regular interval. I timed hits at about 32sec between the strikes. The area of strikes was between alpha Ceti and omicron Tauri. After some time I realised that hits are actually moving very slowly in south –east direction.. The cloud covered the view shortly after but meteor capture software continued to register high intensity hits until it finally drifted out of FOV of camera.. I have not clue what was it, but I have noticed similar phenomena serval times before.
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