Hi, I am a complete amateur to satellite observation, but have seen a fly over of the space station in the mid-nineties with my naked eyes and a few others since. Last night I stepped outside at 8:45pm EDT and noticed a strange object in the sky near the constellation Orion. I live in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. The object was moving very, very slowly in a northerly direction. I could keep my telescope aimed at it without having to skew for a minute or more. After observing it for a while, I retired to the house, but came back out over an hour later and it was still in view, although farther north and closer to the horizon. It was brighter than anything else in the sky and appeared to be flashing/pulsating several different colors: blues, reds and whites. There were several aircraft near it at different times and it looked nothing like them. I aimed my Celestron Nexstar 80 GT telescope at it, and it just appeared as a bright point of light. This was at 32X with a Barlow lens attached. I was wondering if you had any idea what this object could have been? Latitude Longitude Elevation North Smithfield Rhode Island Providence 41.967 -71.550 119 m Thanks, Michael Calo North Smithfield, RI -- Michael Calo Information Technology Support Manager E-mail: calo@abaqus.com ABAQUS, Inc. Tel: (401) 276-4467 Rising Sun Mills Fax: (401) 276-4408 166 Valley Street Web: www.abaqus.com Providence, RI 02909-2499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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