satellite or meteorite?

[coppernob]

looking at low power through my etx80 at a Messier open cluster object yesterday evening (cannot remember which) in north western sky. Saw a very fast object move straight across my FOV - I would estimate just slightly less brighter than jupiter that night. Any ideas? It moved extremely fast and didnt seem to have a tail? Do I assume I saw a satellite?

Andy

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[nephilim]

Saw the same type of thing monday night & again last night so i assume it was a satellite, theres a website that lists them all and their orbits put i cant remember what its called.

Steve

[yesteryeargames]

Was it in cancer ? Because I was looking at a cluster there and saw a very faint object move extremely fast through and past the cluster followed it for 29 seconds and then in vanished

[Jim Steele]

Did it vanish directly overhead or there abouts? That is usually indicative of a satellite or the iss entering earths shadow

[Scooot]

I've just had a look at the new satellite safari app. There's one called genesis 2 whose orbit seems to take it over us. This is where it is as of a few minutes ago. I've looked at the time feature but it doesn't allow me to go back by day. It could have been this. Screen shot below.

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[coppernob]

yes Jim so it probably was a satellite. I have such a low powered scope - the appearance of it in front if the open cluster startled me

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[coppernob]

Scooot just opened up sky safari and there are so manysatellites that I dont know how to begin searching for the relevant one.Similar priblem with my luminos app.

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[coppernob]

sorry for typos- found the reverse time function in luminos app but no joy in identifying said object as satellite. very unlikely to be space station methinks

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[Scooot]

sorry for typos- found the reverse time function in luminos app but no joy in identifying said object as satellite. very unlikely to be space station methinks

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i just clicked on the dots on the map to see if any of the orbits came near us. That's just one I found.

[Scooot]

Scooot just opened up sky safari and there are so manysatellites that I dont know how to begin searching for the relevant one.Similar priblem with my luminos app.

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just re read this, it's not sky safari its satellite safari, a new app launched today

[Scooot]

This one past over a little while ago.

sorry its a new toy

[Scooot]

Another 1 koronus foton is just going past Capella now. If it was a satellite I don't think we'll ever know which one it was but I think this app would be good to identify any you think you might see at the time in future.