Jupiter transit of some sort 22:09 11.02.2016

[Pete Presland]

Just doing some 60 second RGB's last and while doing a "B" channel at 22:09 last night something crossed the disc. The usual imaging set up C9.25/ASI120mm. It went across quite slowly so I thought it must be something that is a good distance away, Asteroid maybe?  But then it looked quite large in comparison to Jupiter, so maybe smaller and nearer than I think?

Whatever it was it made a pretty average imaging session in pretty average conditions quite interesting.   Sorry not sure how to embed AVI into post.

Jup_110216_220946_pipp.avi

[cgarry]

I have no idea what it is, but great catch anyway.

Cheers,
Chris

[Pete Presland]

I did think maybe weather balloon, but I wasn't sure about size, distance etc...

[JB80]

Even if it is a balloon it's still a cool capture Pete.

[Barv]

Interesting. I think it may be an asteroid or even a satelite. Well done anyway. 

Harvey

[astroman001]

Amazing capture, Worth sending to the BAA for help with identification?

Peter

[Davey-T]

Spooky Pete, saw a similar thing crossing the Sun a few months back but unfortunately not videoing at the time.

Dave