Many thanks to Russell, Ed, Allen and Mike for the quick responses. I hate to sound
like a
US Air force UFO debunker of the 60's and 70's, but it was Venus, and the moon. There
were two objects in the time lapsed video images moving in tandem and parallel. The
brighter of the two objects was to the left and the dimmer to the right. They thought the
brighter object might be a satellite and the dimmer object a refraction/lens reflection of
the object. They did not vary in magnitude as they set in the west ruling out that the
dimmer object was a lens reflection/ refraction in my opinion. Using the frame rate and
number of frames as well as the frame number when the image of the sun set we were able to
establish the time as well as azimuth and got a perfect match with the Moon and Venus. I
have not confirmed it but the crescent moon, which appeared as a large round object in the
images would have been brighter than Venus' -4.5. Again thanks for the lists of retrograde
objects I'll copy them to safe storage for future use.
Regards
Jim Nix
Midsouth Astronomy Group
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