.02 degrees per minute is 1.2 degrees per hour which is indeed too fast. Enciladus that night was moving about .006 degrees per hour. Our moon moves about .5 degrees per hour (against the stars). So if this object is orbiting the earth it's closer than the moon but much much farther than the geosynch satellites. So it wouldn't be something normally visible in a 1 meter scope without a CCD I would think. I mean the geosynch satellites are typically only visible in a telescope twice a year when the sun lines up just right. It seems very unlikely that something smaller than a football field would be visible at all plus there are only a handful of earth satellites past geosynch but closer than the moon: Chandra Space telescope is the only one that comes to mind and it's quite large but it was nowhere near the ecliptic (not near saturn). So asteroid maybe? I checked for both UT june 1 and june 2 and found nothing (you didn't answer the question about friday versus saturday night): http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/checkneo.cgi Whatever it was, it seems unlikely it was a spacecraft. Do you know the approximate magnitude? Geosynch sats are mag 11 to 14 typically. Something 5 times farther away would be much dimmer. - George Roberts http://gr5.org _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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