Strange Moving Star

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Ahhhh, here ya go, one second intervals between frames.

[leon]

THat's pretty clever Ken, so what is it mate.

Cheers leon

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Leon, according to the apparent magnitude variation rising and falling twice in it's short capture of travel, I'd say (at a rough guess) it is a piece of tumbling space junk.

There is an awful lot of it up there.

[leon]

Yea Ken, you are probably right mate, shame it's not something more worthy.

Cheers leon

[C.]

Just a thought. I notice you were imaging on January 11th which was the same date the Chinese knocked out their satellite.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Ahhhhh! The plot thickens!

[mojo (Terry)]

Now wouldn't that be a catch!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

OK, call me wierd, but watch the video very carefully and tell me if the object isn't travelling in a straight line!

It appears to me to start on a trajectory to the bottom of screen, then very very slightly change direction to move to the right a bit, then back on it's original course!!!

The variation is only slight and hard to see, but I see it.

[mojo (Terry)]

shhh. You'll get Leon into trouble. It's just a weather balloon.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

But it does appear to change direction!

Like this:

[firstlight (Tony)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

But it does appear to change direction!

Like this:

Its amazing how the eye can deceive you. I just layered each image in photoshop, semi transparent each, inverted and line tooled from first to the last.... fraid to say totally straight. I off set the line turned each layer on and off in succession and dead straight.

I could be an old geostationary sat fallen out of orbit, I've seen slow tumbling ones before. Has to be high to catch the sun that late, I suppose.

Cheers
Tony

[firstlight (Tony)]

Still could be an neo