What did i see?

[GazA]

sat round the in-laws on friday night with a nice french beer in tow in the garden, admiring their fantasic dark sky garden in Bourne, Lincs watching in the Cassiopeia/Andromeda region was watching what i thought was a faint satallite pass from Cassiopeia through to Pegasus, approx halfway across it got brighter and brighter, almost as bright as anything in the sky then got dimmer as it passed through pegasus, it was strange as it seemed to get brighter in stages, it was 2130-45 time on friday, i thought it might of been an iridium flare but i havent seen one before and doubt it was an meteorite as it seemed quite slow,

Can anyone help?

[astroandy101]

Sounds like an iridium flare to me, but i've only ever seen one myself.

[coffee_prince]

I've seen a star like white dot go in a straight line very high in the sky, in my finderscope it resolved no detail, so what exactly was it?

thanks

[Coco]

Sounds like an Iridium Flare..

Ive seen many over the last few years, quite often they glow yellow before the faint away..

Handy knowledge link Help - Iridium Flares

You can eben get an Iphine app that will tell you when you may see one..

App Store - Iridium Flares