OT - can anybody ID “satellites”? Confirmed not a satellite :-) ty all

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    icprncss said:
    Big Meteors!!!!

    One landed last night :-)

    Duck.....

    lol ...

    But because it's in the news, they've posted some places where one can report sightings, so I did :-)

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    robkelk said:
    If the dear nerds who love clouding up our skies would stop doing that, answers to questions concerning its exact location all or most of the time would be easier to answer. This is Ottawa, Canada's Capital. And I'm absolutely positive that said object is not a radio tower.

    You're in Bytown? Small world.

    ... edit ...

    Hasn't been called that for quite awhile lol ... remember the logs?
    Actually, I do, but only because there was still a lumber industry on the Quebec side of the river four decades ago. I remember seeing them on the Gatineau River whenever I went to summer camp.

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    robkelk said:
    robkelk said:
    If the dear nerds who love clouding up our skies would stop doing that, answers to questions concerning its exact location all or most of the time would be easier to answer. This is Ottawa, Canada's Capital. And I'm absolutely positive that said object is not a radio tower.

    You're in Bytown? Small world.

    ... edit ...

    Hasn't been called that for quite awhile lol ... remember the logs?
    Actually, I do, but only because there was still a lumber industry on the Quebec side of the river four decades ago. I remember seeing them on the Gatineau River whenever I went to summer camp.

    Yes it was a few decades ago lol ... on the log stream that ran between the boon docks there was this a little cabin/shack ... it was manned by a previous tenant here. He's passed on now.

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited September 2014

    Got some better pics ;-)

    "Fire and Brimstone" is about as close to any form of I.D. I can get for this so far. Any definite names?

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited December 1969

    Its still there hu?
    I gotta say, I feel your frustration on this.
    Over the years I've seen a lot of strange things in the sky, both from the air and from ground observation... some very strange, some eventually explainable.
    Years back, unless 10,000 people saw it too and it was over NYC buzzing the UN building-AND it was a slow news night... mmmmmmaybe some idiot newsperson might comment that something was seen.
    But... these days, you'd expect more... you see something, something you'd expect like hundreds of people to see and NOTHING ever shows up in the news or internet sites...
    Back in July me and my friends saw a very obvious meteor traveling across the sky... slow moving, bright and trailing debris (or at least shedding smaller flaming bits)... judging from its shallow angle and size at which it "flamed out", I don't think it burned up completely and most likely it just lost air speed and dropped somewhere... but its a very populated area, so you'd figure someone else would have seen it besides me and my friends.
    Naa...
    A last week end I went to the beach, there were thousands of people there and a vintage aircraft (which if anyone out there knows anything about old planes, for all intents and purposes looked spot on for a Fw 190 Focke-Wulf or a damn good replica) flies over the beach low enough that you would think one person would look up, it flies on a little circles the nearby lighthouse and blows out a HUGE smoke trail, it was obvious to me it was one of those units they used when filming a movie or doing a mock dogfight, but but you'd think one person would look up and go "crap that plane is on fire"... nope.... texting, BSing, watching iPads... the plane circles twice and is testing the smoke the whole time...
    No notices... I check around for a couple of days to see if any aviation sites knew of such a plane even existing (or something looking like it)... nope... nobody replies, nobody seen it...
    Megh...
    This is why stuff falls on people.
    Look up once in a while humans... ask questions...
    I wonder what the average ratio is of curious observant people to apathetic ambivalent unobservant people... ?
    Well, this was of no help, and you are far away, so I can't help you.
    But I just wanted to say I feel your frustration, in this day and age where you can instantly find the exact dimensions of a washed out celebrity's nipples, nobody would notice the damn Death Stars sitting over Miami.
    Good luck.
    -Vic

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902
    edited December 1969

    http://astronomy.starrynight.com/

    That software has satallite info in it but its not free

    Try also - http://www.stellarium.org/en_CA/ - Its freeware

  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    Its still there hu?
    I gotta say, I feel your frustration on this.
    Over the years I've seen a lot of strange things in the sky, both from the air and from ground observation... some very strange, some eventually explainable.
    Years back, unless 10,000 people saw it too and it was over NYC buzzing the UN building-AND it was a slow news night... mmmmmmaybe some idiot newsperson might comment that something was seen.
    But... these days, you'd expect more... you see something, something you'd expect like hundreds of people to see and NOTHING ever shows up in the news or internet sites...
    Back in July me and my friends saw a very obvious meteor traveling across the sky... slow moving, bright and trailing debris (or at least shedding smaller flaming bits)... judging from its shallow angle and size at which it "flamed out", I don't think it burned up completely and most likely it just lost air speed and dropped somewhere... but its a very populated area, so you'd figure someone else would have seen it besides me and my friends.
    Naa...
    A last week end I went to the beach, there were thousands of people there and a vintage aircraft (which if anyone out there knows anything about old planes, for all intents and purposes looked spot on for a Fw 190 Focke-Wulf or a damn good replica) flies over the beach low enough that you would think one person would look up, it flies on a little circles the nearby lighthouse and blows out a HUGE smoke trail, it was obvious to me it was one of those units they used when filming a movie or doing a mock dogfight, but but you'd think one person would look up and go "crap that plane is on fire"... nope.... texting, BSing, watching iPads... the plane circles twice and is testing the smoke the whole time...
    No notices... I check around for a couple of days to see if any aviation sites knew of such a plane even existing (or something looking like it)... nope... nobody replies, nobody seen it...
    Megh...
    This is why stuff falls on people.
    Look up once in a while humans... ask questions...
    I wonder what the average ratio is of curious observant people to apathetic ambivalent unobservant people... ?
    Well, this was of no help, and you are far away, so I can't help you.
    But I just wanted to say I feel your frustration, in this day and age where you can instantly find the exact dimensions of a washed out celebrity's nipples, nobody would notice the damn Death Stars sitting over Miami.
    Good luck.
    -Vic

    Thanks, muchly appreciated.

    Yes it's still there. The positions on the rocks change of course. Everybody who has sight can see the main light. Getting pictures of the rocks is abit of a challenge as rocks don't shed light, just reflect some now and then.

    I have my suspicions that something pretty big and major is indeed going on in the skies if for no other reason that 'they' keep clouding up the skies. Usually the sun is clouded which "naturally" would not be as Sol tends to burn holes in clouds, not attract them ... we watch the planes fog the sky ... and recently they've taken to using some super white THICK junk to do that task. Hiding sunsets and sunrises as best they can. So ... in watching the sunrises ... well those clouds sometimes make for some remarkable gold clouds not likely ever seen before ... the pink in the sky indicating something rising, is not necessarily anywhere near where Sol rises ... is sometimes seen even when Sol is well risen but still remarkably covered with super thick and sometimes black clouds. Sometimes there is this ufo thing that hides among the black trail clouds ... sent pictures of that gun to a few who IMHO should know about these things ... it also can be seen with the unaided eye now and then ... tends to have something like a hologram/screen/whatever to appear as an undefined black disk with 2 black horns on it. Cameras don't focus on it 'cause it's not solid ... it's masking that which is solid. That which is solid has absolutely no business in our skies.

    Even on allegedly clear days ... said note being also commented on by other photographers ... there is still something in the atmosphere which [whether intended or not] disables the focusing abilities of many a camera. There is one camera trick to focus on something far away on the horizon, then turn the camera skyward and shoot the picture.

    I have taken pictures also of some of the other stars/planets ... and they never look like this gem of fire and brimstone.

    Somewhere behind and higher in the sky from it, there was, if there still is or not I don't know, something huge and reddish ... very hard item to get a photo of. One has to be snapping the photo the same instant it bounces off a little light glow ... thought i saw it this morning BUT had the camera on 'shaky hand' exposure so it takes several shots and melts them together into one picture. Red thing wouldn't have been in all the shots and was lost, sniff. oh well ... maybe next time. Have to have the camera on single shot and hopefully well braced. Mind you the out of focus ones wherein one gets "space worms" can also serve the good purpose of clearing noting where the real stars, etc are as opposed to pixel noise which of course does not produce "space worms".

    Upon a couple of occasions I have inquired of passersby if they see [whatever] ... you know, they never even bothered to look up. We must be using the wrong approach. Maybe if one asked them if they see the ant they're about to step on, they'll look up and see the moon. I dunno ... sometimes I think the truly blind man down the street sees more than some of his allegedly sighted neighbours. Cockroaches "click".

    Saw a "sun dog" once ... that's a fun phenomena. Apparently there can be upwards of 7 sun dogs at one time. i picture the drunk man falling asleep on a remote beach, under one sun. Waking up and seeing 7. hehehehe ...

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,754
    edited December 1969

    I ran your last image thru NASA's super dooper, galactic, star scanilizzer and they were able to enhance it quite a bit more.

    Mystery solved ;-)

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited October 2014

    Good one! lol ...

    edit to add: Confirmed, not a satellite. And not a weather balloon obviously or any other such of man's making.

    :-) :-) :-)

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