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Moon last night

Gunnar

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Gunnar

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Hello all.

As a brand new astronomical observer, (never hold a telescope in my hands before) I just saved enough money and purchased my wery first telescope ever, and I ordered it from FLO. By the way thank you flo for the exellent service. However this scope a skywatcher 190mn on Neq6 mount was after two nights wery easy to polar align, when I got It how to do it right..! The go to function is absolutely fantastic!

Last night I started wiewing visual on the moon and it was a fantastic clear wiew at 125 magnification, I didn`t see any footsteps on the moon but then suddenly a small rectangular shaped dark object passed in front of wiew, It may have been visual in about two seconds against the lunar surface i think, before it dissapeared out in the dark again!

What in space was that!! :D Was it a sattelite?

The clock at the time was ... 22.43.30 Central European Summer Time (GMT + 2:00) date 8/5/2011 Pos N17.33.21 N59.47.24 Sweden.

Gunnar

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inksmithy

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Gunnar, sounds like a nice night! Have a look at the site Heavens Above on the net, that should help you identify it.

Just do a search on Google for it, I would give the url, but I'm typing from my phone, so don't have it right now.

Alan

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Adamski

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Hello and welcome, it could possibly be the international space station, depending where you are viewing from. I could of course be totally wrong. I saw it fly over 10 days ago.

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cathalferris

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Impressive - the alternative could be an airplane at high altitude. Was there a disturbance behind it (jet exhaust) causing the lunar surface to blur for a few moments?

Satellites tend to be about a half-second or so to cross the lunar surface, and satellites that are far enough up to take a lot longer are too far away to get any meaningful outlines.

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Gunnar

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Hi.

It may have been about half a a second maybe, i am not shure about how many seconds i saw it but it was a very short time i saw it. It was no aircraft, no jet exhaust, I am shure. I do know about aircrafts as I am a holder of pilots license. The object was clearly rectangular shaped like a box.

Regards

Gunnar

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todd8137

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glad you had a great night,the moon as me hooked i am obsessed with it and have been for 2 years i never ever tire of it and hate it when its not out ,on the nights its not in i have dso`s nebula,galixes clusters and doubles to split they will do till it pops out again,the dark object was it a bird i have some video of the moon and a flock of ducks flew past in a great big v it was uber cool

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Gunnar

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Yes I am interested in photography. That`s why I got that scope, and expensive it was!

I did my first imaging session a couple of weeks ago and the scope was pointing at andromeda. Actually at this moment I am doing my second imaging attempt, now the target is M101. The camera (canon 500d) is now up and running 3 min exposures. And I am drinking a hot cup of tea and surfing on SGL:) It will be late to night :glasses2:

Edit: God night and sorry for my spelling.

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jimmythemoonlight

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dont worry about your spelling Gunnar hope you have a great time on this wonderful site everyone is so friendly as you've probably guessed i too started my observing looking at the moon just looked at it for hours and hours and the more you look the better you understand i think anyway won't go on great scope by the way clear skies always jimmythemoonlight liverpool merseyside :glasses2:

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