[Chaos-l] It's not a space station, It's a MOON , well alsmost

[Bryan]

I saw a similar object about four weeks ago.  It was dusk and I was 
attempting to align on Procyon in the SW when this weather satellite came 
into view.  What I saw was a large (4-5 Jupiter) round object, roughly 
reddish orange in color.  There were two pinpoints of light below the object 
and they were connected together with a fine line of light.  The pinpoints 
of light were moving around each other.

It was a very strange thing to see and fortunately my wife saw it also.  I 
tried to get some information about which weather satellite, but was 
unsuccessful.  It is easy to see how the public at large could assume all 
sorts of things about the object.

Bryan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayme Hanzak" <jhanzak at unctv.org>
To: <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: [Chaos-l] It's not a space station, It's a MOON , well alsmost


> Yesterday at around 8:20 to 8:30 pm, I was walking out to my telescope. I
> looked up and saw a very bright object in the sky, The Sun was setting at
> first I thought that it was the Space Station going over head but that
> wasn't the case, I  wasn't moving.
> So I quickly started running through all the bright stars that it could
> possibly be, but there aren't any bright stars in that part of the sky.
> Jupiter is rising in the East  so it wasn't Jupiter and it couldn't be
> Saturn, this object was to far North and almost at Zenith. It still was in
> the same part of the sky. Not moving but very bright. It wasn't a plane,
> I've been looking at it for far to long and it still hasn't moved.
> Could this be an asteroid or something moving extremely close to the
> Earth.
>
> Visions of "Deep Impact", raced through my mind.
>
> It's been 5 minutes now and it is still there. What is this object. Well
> it's not moving and I have a telescope, I better find out what it is and
> prepare the world for the bad news.
>
> I rolled off the roof of my observatory and released my scope. Looking up,
> I could see that it was still there. It is now approaching 10 minutes
> since I set eyes on it.
>
> There it is in my view finder, out of focus I start to sharpen up the
> object. "WHAT" I passed through focus, "This thing is Huge!"  At least 4
> times the size of Jupiter. What the heck I passed through focus again.
>
> Wait, there it is, in focus, it has something hanging from it. "It's a
> weather balloon. Thank God! It's going up, not coming down. At least not
> yet."
>
> I had time to go into the house, get the family and walk back out to the
> observatory , and the balloon was still sitting where I saw it 12 to 15
> minutes earlier. I watched it as the sun set and the shadow of the earth
> slowly darkened it.
>
> Did any one else catch a glimpse of the rogue moon? I mean weather baloon.
>
> Clear Skie!
>
>
>
> Jayme Hanzak
> Special Projects Engineer
> jhanzak at unctv.org
> www.unctv.org
>
>
>
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