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Mark_Collins

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  1. Hi Knighty, That would make perfect sense, many thanks for taking the time to look that up. It was very interesting to see as I've never witnessed anything like it before. I mean that is almost exacly where the observation seemed to be and at the right time. Although I was moving at the time driving so couldn't remain fixed on it. I wish I could have gotten it on camera. It really fascinates up there. Many thanks, Mark
  2. Hi Stu, Many thanks for the welcome. I live in Selby, UK. I was travelling North on the A1 towards the Harrogate junction when I saw the 'event' happen. I wasn't expecting it to be a supernova or anything deep space as you rightly advise, it was just pretty exciting to witness it. The light observed appeared stationary around the location of HD 99489 however, I was not stationary so can't 100% confirm that. The light started looking like a normal star, in the sky to the naked eye, then started to brighten and intensify to the point it looked as bright and as large as Jupiter was to the naked eye last night. Then it faded very quickly to a small dull dot for a longer time than it was bright and then disappeared, I couldn't see it again after that. This all happened over a span of about 5-6 seconds. Seemed like I was frozen in the moment at the time tho. It was unexpected as I was just looking at my favourite constellation and there was this anomaly happening that I could see. It reinforced why I love looking up. Maybe it was just the flash on the google maps satellites camera....🤔 Cheers, Mark
  3. Hi all, I'm new to this forum but wanted to ask if anyone else had witnessed between 03:30 - 03:45 (I didn't note the exact time) an unusual bright looking star, get brighter and slightly bigger, nearly matching jupiter in brightness tonight and then fade out to nothing, between Phecda and Merak in the Ursa Major constellation approximately aroind the location of HD 99489. Appologies if I sound like a crank, just want to know I'm not going mad as I'm at work and can't get to my telescope to look before dawn arrives. Cheers, Mark
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