On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Rodney Austin <rodcomet@gmail.com> wrote: > They are a damned nuisance. We had a real spate of them for a while here in > New Zealand. UFO reports all over the place. As President of the New > Plymouth Astronomical Society, I kept having to field enquiries from the > press and radio/TV. The police and fire brigades were getting really annoyed > as it happened during a long hot dry spell around Chinese New Year. > Rod Austin > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM, George Roberts <gr@gr5.org> wrote: > >> I think you saw one of these lantern things. They are becoming more >> popular >> the world over: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGP0hdq13w >> >> - George Roberts >> http://gr5.org >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Michael Boschat" <aa063@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:56 PM >> To: "Observers, Satellite" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> >> Subject: I saw a plane or ufo???? observation >> >> > Hi all: >> > >> > Yeahhhhhhhhh..... this is interesting. I had my 6" Maksutov out to look >> > at the Moon and was working at 60x. Now the weird part. I looked up and >> > saw a >> > red light which I thought was a satellite moving just a bit slower than >> > ISS >> > passes. What caught my attention was that there were NO green or white >> > flashing >> > lights, the red light was steady. I tried following the object with the >> > Mak. >> > and saw no green or white flashing lights, the red "light" was steady >> > and it was >> > like a comet and coma, a point source with 2 faint reddish jets to >> > either side. >> > Now, I did have to focus the scope and the object just missed passing >> over >> > the >> > Moon near 2356 UT by about 1/4 degree. I just could see a silouette of >> > the object but not get a real good determination as to shape. >> > >> > But, I'm just puzzled that there was no normal aircraft lights noted. >> > >> > Date: August 21/22 >> > >> > Time: 2355-2359 UT >> > >> > Place: Halifax,Nova Scotia >> > >> > Lat: N44d 39' >> > >> > Long: W63d 36' >> > >> > Object first seen overhead just pass Vega. It color was red and no >> > other aircraft lights seen,no sound either. Estimated mag naked eye >> > close to Vega (0 Mv).Missed Moon near 2356 UT. In scope it was just a >> > steady >> > reddish point of light and probaly cast it's glow as there were 2 >> > faint reddish >> > jet like protuberances on each side. It faded out about 3-5 degrees >> below >> > the >> > Moon. Speed was a little less than ISS passes. And I had to re-focus on >> it >> > so the Moon *was* out-of-focus. >> > >> > My unusal observation... I guess...I'll assume it *was a plane but not >> to >> > see >> > the regular FLASHING red,green,white is what caught my eye. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > >> > >> > Clear skies >> > ---------- >> > Michael Boschat >> > Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada >> > Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Seesat-l mailing list >> > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100822/5ea97ebf/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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