BL86 ?

[Davey-T]

Found two or three moving dots in the same area settled on this one.

 You have to click on it to run GIF

Dave

[ronin]

NOSS satellites I suspect. Naval Ocean Surveillance System.

They run around in tethered sets of 2 or 3, US and Chinese naval satellites (or at least that is what they are reported as)

Info on the American system:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/1993/noss_andronov.htm

Info on the Chinese system:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/yaogan-noss.htm

Links may be a bit out of date, I have not looked for a while.

I assume that Calsky may list them, do not think Heavens Above does.

[Moonshane]

hi Dave, I presume this was in the flight path? where abouts in the sky was it?

[r3i]

Hi Dave,

Nice animated GIF.  The trails of the object between each frame appear to seesaw up and down a few times - or is it just my dodgy eyesight? 

I ran your image through astrometry.net, certainly looks in the right place for the asteroid: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/552337#original

[Davey-T]

Thanks Mike, I just put in the co-ords from Stellarium but had the camera in scope so everything upside down and back to front and the camera rotated so bit confused which way was up

Here's a pic with two moving objects.

Dave

[happy-kat]

Nice GIF, clever stuff

[Davey-T]

hi Dave, I presume this was in the flight path? where abouts in the sky was it?

Where Stellarium said it should be, but found more than one

Dave

here's another one

[r3i]

Thanks Mike, I just put in the co-ords from Stellarium but had the camera in scope so everything upside down and back to front and the camera rotated so bit confused which way was up

Here's a pic with two moving objects.

Dave

Hi Dave,

I ran one of mine from last night through astrometry and got this: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/552362#annotated

Mine is coming out just 'above' yours, towards Cancer.  I think the time of mine was about 23:40, was yours taken a bit earlier than that?

Looking at the orientation of your image in the astrometry.net output and comparing it with the charted path of the asteroid, IMHO I think the trails that are going long ways across your image from right to left are more likely to be the asteroid, rather than the ones in your 2nd and 3rd images which are going up/down - these are going in the wrong direction to be the asteroid.  Hope that makes sense!

[Davey-T]

Hi Dave,

I ran one of mine from last night through astrometry and got this: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/552362#annotated

Mine is coming out just 'above' yours, towards Cancer.  I think the time of mine was about 23:40, was yours taken a bit earlier than that?

Looking at the orientation of your image in the astrometry.net output and comparing it with the charted path of the asteroid, IMHO I think the trails that are going long ways across your image from right to left are more likely to be the asteroid, rather than the ones in your 2nd and 3rd images which are going up/down - these are going in the wrong direction to be the asteroid.  Hope that makes sense!

Last frame was 23.20.

Dave

[Davey-T]

Hi Dave,

Nice animated GIF.  The trails of the object between each frame appear to seesaw up and down a few times - or is it just my dodgy eyesight? 

I ran your image through astrometry.net, certainly looks in the right place for the asteroid: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/552337#original

Seen a few time lapses of this and they wiggle as well, it's been suggested that it's caused by the the asteroids little moon.

Does this seem plausible ?

Dave