What I Saw?

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Arrived home last night about 21:52 hrs and as I always do I took the opportunity to take a few minutes to look up and around the skies. Spotted a nice fireball in the vicinity of Orion...and....an odd Mag 1-2 object periodically flashing (at less than 1 sec intervals) moving from the NNW to SSE. I looked over the Heavens Above database but can't identify it....I was hoping it was the Nanosail-D but the times and Magnitude did not match.

I wonder if the average person takes time to just look up at the night sky once in awhile...they would be amazed at what they could see.

[DavidU (Dave)]

I watched this object for some time, it was a little odd as is was still visible flashing until it was very low to the ESE.
I noted some of the flashes were duller than other times.

[astroron (Ron)]

Hi Guys, did you get the Binoculars out and have a look at it ? you would have probably seen it is a revolving Satellite, with more than one flash, but also several smaller flashes.
I have seen many in my 25 years of observing
Some times you can see them in the scope and they sure are bright in a 16" scope
Cheers

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Originally Posted by astroron

Hi Guys, did you get the Binoculars out and have a look at it ? you would have probably seen it is a revolving Satellite, with more than one flash, but also several smaller flashes.
I have seen many in my 25 years of observing
Some times you can see them in the scope and they sure are bright in a 16" scope
Cheers

I'd back up what Ron has said, I've seen quite a few like that over the years.