wkarotten

Hereby a YouTube (link) to the original 6 minutes video at 1x speed.

FLITS 17mar20 moving event horizon

Cheers,

WK

With reference to prior, hereby a 36 sec. video of the 'westward moving visibility event-horizon' of a series of satellites flying over in low orbit during 6 minutes at around 9.00 PM, at 10x speed. The moving of the line of disappearance of the satellites is caused by the sun moving down below the West horizon, or better, by the earth rotating the camera position away from the sun, thus causing the earth to 'moving block' the sunlight to no longer reach the LEO satellites, causing LEO's to be invisible from the early hours of night.

Right?

Cheers,

WK

accidentally posted twice, sorry

You are right about MEO Star Forming, but regarding the velocity, which is +/- comparable to ISS or SpaceX flying over in Low Orbit, if in MEO at this speed, it needs to be powered in some way,  not to fly away, right? Besides, if in MEO satellites or debris would not be visible with the naked eye, which this is, and certainly not be flashing this bright.

You are right again about the zooming in of course, nevertheless just curiously looking for any reference in the Star Gazers community.

Thanks anyway, cheers!

WK

Of course JamesF! Still the earth is in between the sun and any orbiting object over our heads at that time of day.

Early after sunset and the SpaceX series flies over, you can see the satellites disappearing, each next one a little earlier, a little more to the West disappearing, with this 'visibiliy horizon' moving to the West. Due to the sun going more down behind the horizon. After an hour to 2 hours those orbiting satellites and debris above us are no longer lit by the sun.

So, the question remains, if it cannot be sun lit, what is it?

WK

Hi SkyJamie,

Thanks, but then again, how can a satellite or debris reflect light from the sun in the middle of the night - earth is blocking the sun, there is no light to reflect - creating a flash that is brighter than the brightest stars around? I have no idea what it is either...

Cheers Mate and success with the camera's

wk

With randomly shooting the sky, out of 1.000+ photo's, apparently we framed this odd 'bright light', which when zoomed in appears to be...some weird thing?

Anyone to shine light on this mystery?

Cheers,

Willy

Check at 1:30, climax zoomed in of 2 'blinking FLITS'.

Same video in 'HD' on YouTube : (in attempt to paste te link, cheers)

Hint: from top right to low middle a 'blinking' Flying Light In The Sky, gets company from another blinking FLITS coming in, from low mid, up.

The Sterrenwacht - Dutch Professional Stargazers - have not yet responded to any of our footage, so anyone?

Cheers

W

As stated earlier, those Flying Lights In The Sky (FLITS) over our house are pretty hard to catch on 'film', but we got a few recorded, so here is one...

Any idea's what we are seeing here?

Cheers,

Willy K

Like mentioned earlier, it is very difficult to shoot pictures of those 'flying lights in the night sky', and hereby just one yet, that should be zoomed in 'to the max'.

Anyone seen anything like this fire fly flying by and like to share, cause we have no clue at all what we are looking at here...

Cheers!

willy

Well, no need to wait for Spring as the same night as previous message was posted here, it was All, but silent in the sky above our house!

We 'accidently'  caught these on video on december 30st, 

Satellites, well, that is what we thought too! But experts say it can't be satellites for several reasons, 1. On average those lights fly too fast (60 sec. from horizon to horizon and sometimes (much) faster), 2. the light they emit is emitted, not reflected,  3. Satellites are visible 1 hour after sunset and 1 hour before sunrise (all info by a professor in 'astral bodies') 4. One Sunday night in July we counted 27 'flying lights' between midnight and 4 AM, besides improbable statistics, at those hours satellites are simply not visible and certainly not as bright as those flying lights are, 5. What may probably be not clear from the pictures, is that not all 'flying lights' follow straight lines, some change direction, some change velocity, some switch its light on/off, some 'zigzag' to a hold, do a couple of 'slow but very bright blinks' and then fly on, or on-the-spot just fade into thin air in about 10 sec. and many variations of this totally weird behavioral...

In addition to the 'weird-factor', while sky-watching with the nightly temperatures declining, so does the amount of 'flying lights in the sky' with last night, clear and dark skies and freezing a bit, we hit the all-time low of 0 (zero) lights seen fly by. 

#wxsatuser, the local (Utrecht Netherlands) date and time are in the photo's, aren't they?

#ourobouros, thanks as well and what do you mean by 'A plate solve of the first image...'?

Hopefully and if, those flying lights return in reasonable amounts coming Spring / Summer You Stargazers Loungers will be the very First to Know!!
and of course are All very Welcome to come and See for Yourselves!! (I am very sure too, that I would never ever believe this, but every word is true and more...)

keep you updated!

Cheers!

WK

With reference to earlier, in this PDF some Pictures of the 'flying lights in the sky' taken from our central Utrecht roof terrace. Same PDF is sent to 'Sterrenwacht' and although so far emailing has always been swift and punctual, it has been 3 weeks now and have not heard of them, yet. Anyone any idea's what we are seeing here?

Lights in the sky_v4.pdf

From our central Netherlands roof terrace we see them in growing numbers. Just this night in about 2 hours we registered 27 of those too high velocity 'satellites' with ordinary binoculars, former week ago record was 7 in 1 night. Not all follow straight paths and some respond to my laser pen light I annoy them with by changing speed or direction or flashing brightly. Due to our urban surroundings without binoculars most of those randomly speeding lights are very hard to track.