Right i know this sounds weird but me and my father in law and my brother in law was sat star gazing and all of a sudden we saw what looked like the north star but bigger and brighter moving really slow across the sky it was not a aeroplane or a helecopter as there was no flashing lights or sound it travelled across the sky for a few moments than it just dissapeard but it didnt go real sudden just like it had appeared it just faded as if it was never there we sort of got it on our phone camera so as u can proberly tell where all a bit puzzeled so help needed cheers oh by the way where not on any drugs or medication lol
2007-08-11 11:17:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
by the way i live in hull in yorkshire united kingdom
2007-08-11 11:46:54 · update #1
you might consider doing drugs :-)
2007-08-11 11:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by zoeksalamander 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
As you did not state a time, it was possibly the International Space Station (ISS) If not then likely an "Iridium Flare". This phenomena is caused by a high orbit satellite moving from the shadow of the Earth into sunlight and back into shadow. Below is the site for the times of the ISS as seen from Hull it will be very bright and can be seen easily with the naked eye, you will have a job following it with binoculars as it passes over quite quickly in a matter of a few minutes. Have fun.
2007-08-11 23:07:47 · answer #2 · answered by Spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends. If you were looking from the west to the north or northeast, you might have seen the International Space Station or another satellite. Where were you, what direction you were observing, time of day (night) length of observation and approximate angle of observation from where you were to the object are all necessary information to determine what you saw. The ISS is about 10 to 15 degrees above the horizon on most nights lately between 8:30 and 11:30 P.M., but just for a few minutes or less.
2007-08-11 11:26:39 · answer #3 · answered by NJGuy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing weird. It sounds like it was either the International Space Station or the shuttle; both are in orbit at the present time. You can find out past, present, and future passage times by registering on this web site and entering your location:
http://www.heavens-above.com/
2007-08-11 12:01:30 · answer #4 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly a meteor comming in at a very accute angle..not a ufo (alien). that is.or you could have and probably have seen was an iridium flash..this is relected sunlight comming off a satellite near or after sunset...which last about 15 to 20 secs or less.
2007-08-13 15:58:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the international space station it was visible a few days back in the northern atlantic hemisphere a few time one of the times it was being closley follwed by the space shuttle you might be lucky enouph to see it leaving the space station on it return
2007-08-15 10:50:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 03:13:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a satellite.
2007-08-11 11:26:10 · answer #8 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me like you saw a satellite, from the size of it most likely the ISS although it could have been a low orbiting one something like a weather satellite
2007-08-11 11:33:55 · answer #9 · answered by gramps 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If moving slowly, it's one of the many artificial satellites. They fade because they enter the earth's shadow, and so they go out of sunlight.
2007-08-12 03:54:57 · answer #10 · answered by James P 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You saw a satellite. It went into the earth's shadow.
2007-08-11 11:38:30 · answer #11 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋