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paulus humungus
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posted 12-13-2014 01:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for paulus humungus   Click Here to Email paulus humungus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fellow cS'ers, I wonder if I can ask your opinion on something I observed last night in the Eastern night sky in the constellation Bootes at 5.15am GMT.

With the naked eye the object looked just like a fuzzy blob just as a naked eye comet would look. With binoculars the fuzzy blob again looked like a comets tail but a stubby triangular one. I was puzzled by this since I wasn't aware of any naked eye comets at the moment.

I observed this object for around 45 minutes and as time went on I noticed that it moved quite a distance relative to a close faint star in my binoculars: again something that a comet would not do in this short space of time. Eventually the fuzzy blob faded until it disappeared.

Do any of you have any explanation for this observation last night?

mmmoo
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posted 12-13-2014 04:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mmmoo   Click Here to Email mmmoo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Potential visibility of a fuel dump from a rocket booster.

John C UK
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posted 12-13-2014 06:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for John C UK   Click Here to Email John C UK     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
collectSPACE at it's best!

That's why I hang around this place so much.

paulus humungus
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posted 12-14-2014 08:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for paulus humungus   Click Here to Email paulus humungus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks a lot - mystery explained. It's amazing how close to my description the explanation on the supplied link was.

Blackarrow
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posted 12-15-2014 04:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Blackarrow     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Of course, it could be... "visitors" making their Earth orbit insertion burn...

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