A question about moving objects in the night sky??

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Star_Gazer_82  

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Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:04 am

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A question about moving objects in the night sky??
I'm a little confused!?

I was sitting outside last night when I noticed a star,or at least i thought it was a star, but then I noticed it moving across the sky, now i've seen shooting stars before, but this one was moving to slow, or at least I think so, and then it started to fade like it was getting farther away and then disappeared completly. Can anyone shed some light on what this might have been?!

I heard that sometimes we can see the space station moving across the night sky, and that it looks like a moving star, but how fast wold it really move?
Marc   Site Admin

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Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:03 pm

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Location: Ireland
viewing the ISS
It sounds you saw like the International Space Station or the Space Shuttle Atlantis. For precise times on when these are visible from your location check out this website: Heavens Above
Hopefully this will help to solve the mystery!
romajeremy  

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Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:08 pm

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I saw the same exact think
but the funny part was that me and my friend saw 4 in less then an hour!
they were not shooting stars i can tell you that much
romajeremy  

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Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:58 pm

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RomaDonowitz
Same thing
my friend and i saw one turn on and then about an hour a light flashing next time it on and off and moving
then we saw another 3 doing the same thing!
Lydia   Site Admin

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Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:17 am

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ISS and/or satellites
Could be either ISS or Satellites.
Marc's website suggestion is a good start to find what was in your area
at the particular time the object was sighted.
LL/
audreyramirez  

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Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:07 pm

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awesome
nice one
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