Nightfury

1:30 too soon

Would love watch this

probably this. The normal surface reflections shouldn't be bright enough in 37k km wow, thanks for putting it clear guys and I know more about supernovas , nice

ok, that would explain alot. But there is one last thing unclear to me: when it's at it's apogee, and illuminated, how does it not reflect light anymore after this three minutes? At this hight there should be enough light...

Yep, and in the northern part of Germany, it's ~ 52° above the equator (when in orbit)

Sounds like it was a iridium flare. Problem again, it was not moving, and lasted minutes. Btw pretty nice how many reply's got here

summer time, so UTC/GMT + 2

Trying it now. But here are the information: Lat 52.6 Lon 10.3 UTC + 2 (Summer time) UTC + 1 (Standart Time) EDIT: Only after 9pm, the sighting was 8:30pm, so a bit off

Is there a way or a map of satellites , where you could find such a sat ?

Good Idea. Just a question: are there comsats at a latitute of 52° in a stationairy orbit ?

Is this possible at a different place in the sky, than the "original" source? Venus was about 25° above horizon and the dot roughly 85°

Venus was between the sun and the Moon at this time I can't remember correctly, but I think it was moving with the sun.

Hot air ballon, well not very likely in my area, but would explain the stuff afterwards. Helikopter, yeah. As you can see on the picture there was no special shape and you would hear it. Furthermore they don't fly that high... Not trying to deny anything, sounds just unlikely (As a Supernova). Would need to be something else I think

Yeah that's true. The problem with a plane or so is, this thing doesn't moved a single bit. I thougt of it in the first moments, but it stayed at the same place all the time

Hey Guys Yesterday evening( ~8:30pm local) I was photographing the Moon and sunset, when some bright spot apeared roughly 85° above the horizon. It was the first star to see, but suddenly (after 3 minutes of appearence) it fainted and then disappeared. There were some dots after dissapearence, which left after a few seconds too. Now my questions are: Is it possible that this was indeed a Supernova (it was even brighter than the moon), with some lighted gas from the Star or was it a meteor coming in completely straight? (would not be a good explanation, because of the relative long visible time) I know that the probability of such an event inside the milky way is like 20 +- 8 per millennium, but there is one It could be something completly different, but I can't imagine a thing at the time. A picture of the dot:

maybe a NASA restriction , perhaps they wan't to do it overly secured

I see the ISS. When should this happen ?

Does TESS have RW's or uses it fuel? Turning it so many times would be pretty expensive

Haven't thought of that How this should be done? (Have no clue how this could work)

Easier to transport , yes. But the problem is making/keeping it solid , because of the veery low temperatures (below 14K for Hydrogen , below 54K for Oxygen) You would need pretty advanced cooling systems for that long time, besides this it would indeed make things easier.

Maybe he takes it all the way as a safty reason. If anything goes wrong , they have the fuel to go back. If they have routine on the moon in fuel production and it's safe getting there, you don't need to take it anymore. Reducing the mass later.

so, let's wait for fairing info

nope fourth sat deployed

third is away now

second stage engine restart finished second sat deployed