I’m a commercial pilot and have seen things like this frequently high over the Atlantic on dark moonless nights. My first thought is they are geosynchronous satellites slowly rotating, but I see them naked eye and figure they would be too far away to see which does make me wonder what they actually are?
@@GeeBeeMike exactly. My sightings were naked eye. They flashed brightly, too. One characteristic very slow moving flasher was close to the northeastern horizon slowly moving east just as dawn twilight was increasing.
@@lucaslangen3059 A tumbling shiny object would not necessarily have a regular interval. If the thing is spinning on one axis and tumbling on another, it could look very random, just like blown up satellite bits or spent rocket stages. It's probably aliens though.
I'm from Buenos Aires Argentina and i've been seeing those things for years since as far back as 2012. In your case that thing just kept moving in a straight line, but i have seen them stop, stay at the same spot for like an hour, turn and change course and even meet with some of its friends up there and flash at each other until they dissapeared. Great catch, man.
@@sealteamsix1784it probably reflects light over a large area. It’s not pointed directly at our pov. Considering it stays still I would imagine it’s a geostationary satellite and they got really lucky with timing to see the suns reflection.
I had a powerful green laser and was laying in the grass in my back yard. I was circling a star and suddenly there was a bright almost camera flash of a beam of light that shot down from a dark area of sky directly at us. It was so weird. I stopped and looked for an airplane or something, waited about 30 seconds since I didn’t want to blind a pilot or something. No flashing nav lights or sound. So I pointed the laser in the same spot and again it responded with a bright flash. My daughters were freaked out with one of them rushing inside. Pulled out my phone and did it a third time to no response. Still have no clue what it could have been.
Be very careful about shining lasers into the sky. It could dazzle an aircraft pilot, and as such, the FAA has strict laws about this and you could get into some serious hot water. There have been many incidents like this and people got fined heavily, went to prison or worse.
@@KD-bk7gd Did you consider it could have been a piece of reflective space debris which was simply reflecting your own light back at you like a mirror? I know there's tons of junk and debris out there so it seems plausible. The alignment simply could have not been right to happen the third time you shown your laser.
@ I was circling an area of sky, and it was shining back from inside the circle. It wasn’t reflecting the laser back. Also the laser was green and the light shining back was bright white.
So freaking incredible. Your night sky videos are out of this world man. Ive been posting in comment sections with your channel to get people to come see what you are catching. You should be growing very quickly. People give this man the credit he deserves and thumbs up this vid.
I have watched the sky for almost 50 years. A few years ago I started seeing odd, intermittently flashing objects. Now I am seeing other people observe the same thing.
On a canary islands I see this things sometimes high over the ocean sometimes just above the ocean. I lived there over 12 year and I see a thousand times. Some of them in a 4-5 flashing light groups.
Yeah bro I’ve seen it flying from Uruguay to Chile, it’s a iridium satellite flare light, it’s just normal 🤷🏻♂️ first time I saw it I was like “oh look ufos” 😂😂😂
I’ve looked at Orion 100’s of times and never knew there was any nebula around Orion’s Belt, now I’m gonna have to look again and use my phone. SO COOL!!
Just west of San Antonio and I've seen this and other strange objects since April this year. Quite amazing as I see this with the naked eye on moonless nights
West San Antonio is where I saw a giant triangle UFO fly over us as we where out on 1604 by sea world. Thing was les than a 1000ft up in altitude. Traveling east to west. Craziest thing I've ever seen.
@@qbertatxa couple of weeks ago we had a skywatch from the outer boundary of Government Canyon in San Antonio. We captures a light traveling south to north ver, very fast with an object splitting off from it and pacing it and then just disappear.. also we witnessed the lights that flare up orange in the west and disappear that same night between 8pm and 9pm. Scannerguy has video examples of them here on his account. With military grade NV goggles you can clearly see them. Check it out
If it is not moving it is in geosynchronous orbit, about 22000 miles up. Probably parked in a storage orbit for inoperative satellites that have run out of maneuvering fuel. Orion Nebula is very near the celestial equator and at your latitude (42N) is right on the geostationary orbit, so you should see that satellite every night at about the same time.
I can see the same on a regular basis. It’s definitely a satellite, mostly always in the same spot and it does two, three bright flashes and roughly the same time of night about an hour or so after dark. I’m also convinced that UFO’s are real, but this is definitely not.
Seeing this made me remember that satelite i could see naked eye (like any other one when sky is dark in west Africa). The thing is : Satelites dont change their linear course midway to go almost backware with roughly 25-30° angle corner point..... I still don't get many years later what was really happening.
This is not geostationary. I recorded six of these in the moonless night sky and they had the same slow faint-black-bright-black oscillation creeping across the sky at various angles to the Clarke Belt and far away from it. I observed two at the same time one evening. My guess is very high altitude tumbling booster stages. I could not locate an entry in the sat lists on my sat apps. The one you recorded nearly exactly matches the oscillation pattern I observed on separate evenings. Excellent capture, congratulations.
How is it not geostationary if it stays in the same place as viewed through a stationary camera? With the stars moving past as the earth rotates? It has to be at 22K miles altitude to do so.
@@MikinessAnalog It would have to be 22,236 miles altitude in the Clarke Belt to be geosynchronous with earth’s rotation. My sightings were nowhere near the CB and at angles away from it and they were moving just as slowly as in this video. The angular motion of this sighting matches my sightings’ motions no matter which direction they were moving. That was the first oddity I noticed about these objects.
@@Bitterrootbackroads How can we assume it is staying in geosynchronous lock? (See if you can track its position relative to the stars in an atlas, estimate its position within the Clarke Belt and estimate the motion relative to earth’s angular momentum.) Not arguing your point, just offering a possible way to see if it is geosynchronous.
There is a pattern to the flashes, the third flash being a short staccato and then the large burst. I count a total of four pulses, all four are different in brightness and duration, but they repeat over and over. It could be irregular in shape and rotating with a light source. However, my instinct is that something of irregular shape is rotating around a light source.
Only thing that makes sense is a geosynchronous satellite that’s rotating to maintain orientation. I would guess that flashing occurs only during certain periods of time in coordination with the sun relative to the earth. It would be for communications or something like sat tv.
Give me the gps coordinates of where it was observed or at least within a 1/2 mile or so and the exact time and date and I will confirm it. I am an astronomer. I used to regularly observe satellite activity during acquisitions both in images and in real-time. And now recording the sky is a 24/7 thing I do through 8 automated cameras. 7 of which use stars and location to precisely calibrate position, angle and orientation and use lens models to compensate for field distortion. This gives precise altitude and azimuth of objects or events. From start to finish. And it’s calibrated down to the atomic clock in microseconds. It uses that to calculate speed too. Then using known stars it also calculates brightness in magnitude of said events. For further analysis of a 3 dimensional trajectory and place of origin it uses data from a similar far away station that overlaps the same sky dome.
@@GrowingAnswers Just check around 4am central on the 27th, it's a BEIDOU sat orbiting high enough that it doesn't really matter where the observation is, you'll see it within a degree or two of M42. Another goes by in the same direction at about 5:45am.
I think it could be a lens opening briefly to snap a picture and thus reflecting the ambient light of the earth and whatever else is emitting light (sun, moon, stars, etc.) The brightness varies because of the orientation of the lens, or perhaps multiple lenses in an array. Or it's possibly thrusters from a satellite (probably an Iridium) and those are its thrusters activating to keep it in orbit.
I've been seeing these for years. Just eyeballing the sky for satellites and catching the 'flash' peripherally. I'd focus on that spot and see exactly what you filmed here. I always thought geosynchronous object. I would be great to know for sure what it is.
Yes! I have seen this as well for a couple of years now, off & on. The same 18 sec. or so intervals, but not in the same place every time. It's so bright sometimes, it will refract light in my binocular lens. Glad I stumbled across this here! Somebody else is seeing this!
I seen the exact same thing in daylight when it was sunny in 2023 and there was 3 of them in the sky just blinking they were brighter than STARS at DAYTIME and they didn't move for 30 minutes, I stood there and watched and other people next to me saw the saw lights all I can think of is it looked exactly like morse code the way they were blinking like they was communicating, this was in Birmingham UK BTW
Once I was fixed on a certain star formation for a few nights while having a cigarette, the one star I was looking at one night in this formation got significantly brighter and then went out, like someone used a dimmer switch, turned it right up for a second, then turned it down reeeeal quick. The star wasn't there after that. Not sure what I saw, but it was interesting for sure. And so weird that it was the one star I locked my eyes on for like 10 seconds leading up to it disappearing/dying maybe?
in northland new zealand at night i often see a bright flash spaced 9 seconds apart and slowly moving i have seen it heaps was wkndering if it was iridium flares but every nine seconds?? i dont know
Practice CE5 protocols and have often seen this type of flash. One night we were seeing them every time we requested it and shortly after 3 black unmarked helicopters came out of nowhere with headlights searching the field we were in and circled until they flew off. This was 3am in the morning so really unusual activity for the area.
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman The OP does his homework regarding satelites, as seen by his previous videos. However, there is obviously no public list of secret military/spy sats available to check against.
I recorded something like this on my sionyx scope ( nowhere near as the quality as your camera ) the last video on my channel, i see some strange thing about.
Thinking a 12 inch dobsonian, a satelite would go through its field pretty fast. Focused that far, I don't believe we have satelites that far away that aren't stationary. Whatever it was, that was finding a needle in a haystack.
The fact that it’s staying dead center means it’s in a 24 hour orbit, and the Orion Nebula is right on the celestial equator. So it’s in geostationary orbit. I’d also bet on it being a defunct satellite slowly spinning and flashing us with a solar panel reflection in the sun.
It’s almost certainly a geosynchronous satellite. I’ve seen them many times in Orion. It’s near the celestial equator where geosynchronous satellites are located.
Wouldn't a geosynchronous orbit object move at the same apparent velocity as the stars just in the opposite direction? As it would maintain its position relative to Earth.
Not a chance. Geosync sats are too far away to emit this much light at any size we make them. The flashers appear to be point source light vs reflected. I have seen hundreds of them over 57 years.
I saw something like this in vero Beach FL....i worked on the ocean side ....always got to work early ......always looked to the sky because we had a light ban for the turtles ......i would see what looked just like a flashlight going on and off every so often.....not always in the same spot either ....so weird
We have mini Space Shuttle about a 1/4 the size of the actual shuttle that spends years in space on unmanned, secretive military missions. What this shuttle is doing is anyone's guess!? It's called the X-37B, and is part of the United States Space Force which I doubt many even know about! 😅 Yes, the US has a space force, and what that consists of other than the X-37B I have no idea!? I'm sure that flashing light is something innocuous, but it's fun to try, and identify these objects. Thanks for these very interesting telescope views Todd, can't wait to see more along with the tech views. 👍🎃✌🗽
Combining all that with the Phenomenon, ie., decades of legit cases, encounters, and interaction with some type of non-human intelligence. Certainly makes one contemplate. Is it us from the future? Is it A.I.? Is it inter-dimensional? Have they been here all along? Grusch under oath testified to multiple programs currently in possession of "off world" crafts. He also shared one example of the alien biologics, as being incomplete under physical examination. Akin to an incomplete rendering, whereas the internals weren't there in this ET bio robot. Fascinating stuff. This video here, superb capture.
I remember about the Southern Television broadcast interruption of 1977. The first 2 lines of it were "This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies." I wonder if he was talking about these lights ?
I'm not criticizing,,,Excellent footage,,Excellent capture. When people say,," you need this,, and you need that,,," They must be extremely rich,,,or don't understand that the price of even the individual pieces of equipment for a good telescope cost. Let alone the thousands of dollars that one good piece of equipment cost. Please continue to enjoy your hobby and share and learn. Thankyou for sharing your finds. ❤🌠🌌🕳
I wonder why through all the years we’ve had telescopes there so dam expensive? Is it because they don’t want the average person looking up maybe? I don’t think they have to worry if that’s the case cuz most of the kids these days prolly have tech neck from lookin down at their phones all the time…….😂 Then again maybe the kids are watching scannerguy1968’s videos! 😜😂🤣 ✌🏼
@@sixstringhans-tone5574you got it! It is definitely a conspiracy amongst all the telescope manufacturers out there. The makers of these telescopes definitely do not want you to buy their products because you might look at the sky with them. Better yet, there is some secret law that we don't know about which forces these telescope manufacturers to buy their parts from some government-based supplier who can control the prices so that they are "astronomically" High ... And I would be willing to bet that the moon landing was faked as well right? Take the Tin foil hat off once in awhile
@@anonydun82fgoog35 The object in this video is, according to the commentary from the uploader, stationary. What you're seeing is the planet's rotation causing the stars to move behind the object, not the motion of the object itself. When you look at the night sky with your eyes it's very difficult to see the stars move but when you use a telescope it becomes a considerable problem that has to be accounted for by moving the telescope. Many modern telescopes (especially those used for astrophotography like this one) have an automatic tracking function that will track an object across the sky. In this case, the telescope was (according to the uploader) set to remain stationary. That's how we know this object was stationary - as in geostationary. You can see non-geostationary satellites zoom across the screen a couple times in the video.
@@anonydun82fgoog35 The object in the video is stationary, the motion is caused by the rotation of the Earth. The fact that the object isn't moving in this shot means that it is stationary relative to the Earth's rotation (as in geostationary).
I've seen this too, but my experience was multiple flashes (that looked like this to the naked eye, like some space aliens are snapping polaroids...) but they were all in various spots, making like an L and a Z pattern with the points, was with family and we all saw it. My only hunch is something in geo stationary orbit, but why would we see the exact same brightness of flashes and in different spots in the same general region of the sky like this? Ours wasn't moving per say, but the flashes were random and not exactly distributed through time, nor position (some were 5-10 degrees away from each other, we saw over 20 flashes then it just stopped.) and we waited over an hour 1/2 after it stopped flashing and it never came back. Noted the time and position relative to the stars but yeah, absolutely no idea. Haven't seen it since. (I kept checking for over a week!) Thought it might be a star at first experiencing some sort of stellar event, or a geostat sat of some kind, but those flashes are so crazy and weird it's really hard to think how these things can be that far away and not moving and just not fall back down to earth. This is what made me think it was something much farther away than simple satellites or debris. I don't think debris/satellites would flash quite that bright either given how it was obviously way brighter than satellites reflecting the sun. Plus, astronomers would be in an uproar if something was flashing like this and disturbing ground based observations. So, who knows? I think it'd be nice to get some confirmation instead of people just replying with 'It's this." and providing zero evidence. Like so; It's 👽
I had an “event” happen on about 15 years ago; I noticed a “star” on successive nights…not behaving like the others. Instead of twinkling…it THROBBED. Pulsed. And when I got my 800mm Nikkor on it, night ….within seconds, it lit up, multi colors…and then ZOOMED to the right, and…GONE! Then the shutter closed. Then I threw up. “THEY” KNEW…I was watching them. The TIMING….within SECONDS. And that’s when my whole world view…of EVERYTHING, changed. And the PHOTO captured it all. I’ve already had my “disclosure”….everything else is gravy.
I’ve seen a lot of LEO “Flashers” which seen to be obvious tumbling Sats that you can sometimes only see a few times flashing until they go out of the sunlight and by following a the arc of a couple of flashes predict the orbital path to see more flashes . It would depend on how fast the tumble rate was to how often you could see the flash. Some only a few times before going over the solar terminator so to speak. Some would only be single flashes from a stable array that just happened to be at the perfect angle of sun to me, surely a rare event given the relatively small footprint of the reflections until you calculate just how many Sats are up there, then not so rare ! Consider what would happen if a Geo synchronous sat with a relatively large array went out of service and started tumbling in place, wouldn’t that have this kind of effect ? I saw a flasher one cold late December night from the hot tub though that wandered around in different directions out at a 45 deg angle ! Now that was no satellite for sure and have seen other anomalies in motion as well . Our’s or “their’s” very advanced equipment for sure which we now obviously have and the outsiders had to have to get here !
That's a great catch. If you were just pointed to one spot in the sky, with no tracker, watching the stars move by from the Earth's rotation, some things to me it could be. 1-geosynchronous or geostationary satellite, 2-camera sensor pixel anomaly, 3-Aliens, 4-government shit, 5-glitch in something. I believe it's a Geo sync/stationary Satellite catching the Sun's rays on various surfaces due to being synced with the Earth's rotation. Just my thought. Great catch anyway.
No, I got one on longtime exposure and it‘s not geostationary! I even got approval from Leibniz-Institute for Astronomy that it is unknown for them what these objects are.
Pretty much every time I look at the sky for an extended period you will see these sometimes with the naked eye and especially if I have my night vision goggles sometimes will see 2 or 3 a night very slow moving and sometimes the flash will be very bright and other times dull
Hi, on holiday in the south of France this year and slept outside under the sky quite a few times. These objects are exactly what I have seen. What is strange is that I have slept outside lots in the years gone by and only saw these objects starting this year. Very strange
I'm pretty sure this is some kind of space debris. It's probably rotating and floating in orbit. Given that it pulsates at a regular interval, one flash followed by a pause and then another repeating pulse-series, repeating in the same way, it's most likely some kind of debris.
I’m in Oxford county Maine and I’ve seen this twice with naked eyes. My thoughts were tumbling satellite, a pulsing propulsion system, or the space station adjusting its orbit. I will say it never fully blacked out, it traveled in a straight line, and it seemed to fade out like a satellite, but I appeared to get big and bright then small and dim.
I live in western Colorado I have seen the same exact thing several times, a very bright flash every 20 seconds or so. Not sure what it is. Keep up the great work!
@@candui-7 they are able to travel across an ocean of stars but they have difficulty mining some metals in the ground? dont think so. prob takes them 2 minutes while at the helm of their giant spaceship
This is absolutely amazing! Beautiful capture. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I think you’re right on the money, whatever that thing is it sure seems to be rotating.
Regardless of which hypothesis’ given in the comments might be true, kudo’s to you on the fun and awesome video capture. These are the things that keep this hobby enjoyable. I personally like the suggestions of geo-synced objects or tumbling space debris. The only thing missing there is why did it stop (or appear to stop) in the end? Unless the path was mapped against the star sky and verified with known objects, the math done etc., these are only hypothesis. Still fun! If we are to try and really capture what we want to believe are alien objects, I would prefer to see said objects change direction, not stay in the same path. I experienced something like that when I was a kid about 8 to 10 years old. I do not remember the year, but early 60’s. I was given a small telescope for Christmas and while out in the yard I saw a moving object very much like this. It was obviously not an airplane, very small in size just like some of the distant stars in my view. As it moved, it stopped and changed direction about a 45-degree angle and then continued. There were not many satellites orbiting in the early 60’s and none of them could stop and change direction. Will never know and does not matter. It was FUN! Cheers to all and keep watching.
I saw the same flashing near Orions belt. It flashed every 41-43 seconds and it moved very slowly. With every flash it was at slightly different location.
Rotating debris maybe? You are in the satellite visibility time window since one passes by. Also seems to be moving in a straight line with just a rough look. It might worth it to take stills from video and connect the dots see if they are straight. I always keep an eye for anomalies ever since I experienced one in fairly low altitude, unfortunately I didn't have anything to record it but nowadays, I am fully equipped!
Best guess is an Iridium spy satellite. But it does seem rather small at that zoom level. However, that is consistent with what we see with the naked eye. Unlike most satellites that appear as a solid dot of light moving consistently. The Iridium satellites seem to be rotating and only appear as a momentary bright flash of light. If it is stationary then it is most likely a geostationary satellite. Which would be farther away than most satellites. Pretty neat though to look at the nebula like that.
My guess would be some tumbling space junk at a very high orbit, I suppose geosynchronous if it was stationary in the sky. The tumbling can cause them to flash on and off, especially if the period is regular. Having said that, in the 1990s I saw what I thought was a satellite one night (naked eye). Watched it for a little while, seemed like it might be going too fast to be a satellite, but wasn't sure. Was trying to figure out if it was a plane or a satellite when it suddenly slowed down, turned, and accelerated straight up like you wouldn't believe. Within about 5-10 seconds it was so high and small I couldn't see it anymore. Damn thing shot straight up into space (and then some) as far as I could tell. No idea what it was. I still think about it.
This is the first time I've seen someone catch this. I have been seeing these things for 10 years but usually moving about the speed of a satellite. The ones I've seen would slowly get brighter and brighter flash and go out. Then a little bit farther away they would start appear and repeat, from horizon to horizon.
I have seen this flash from the same spot with my naked eye for a couple of years now. Sometimes it flashes so bright, its like a camera flash. I was thinking geostationary satellite but wondered how i can see that without any instrumentation? If it were the sun glinting off of a satellite wouldnt the flash disappear late at night?
I've seen this (I'd say pretty much identical to the video) on late night walks a couple of times. First time I watched it for probably a half hour before it stopped and the second time I saw probably 2 rotations (or whatever it's doing) and it disappeared. Interesting that it appears to not be listed/registered for people to identify.
Such a great video! You make me want to buy a new telesope and a digital camera! Keep doing that important work! Thank you very very much! Subscribed! I'm watching these kinds of flashes on every clear morning in Germany (saw some this morning, Nov 1st at 5.02 h in western Germany, near Jupiter. Thought it was a Starlink, to be precise No 4008 (comparing real time in HA App). But when I sat down at my laptop and looked in Heavens Above again I realised that I could not have been that satellite I thought it was. And no other matched the line of passing....). So here I go again... More work and digging and research ahead of me... But what I recognized is that on most occasions the flashes appear when satellites are not in earth's shadow anymore. So that at least points into the direction of satellites. Nevertheless I've made observations of flashes at times where no sattelite was near _and_ at times when satellites were definitely still in earth's shadow. So what light should they reflect? Stationary flashes at first, and after four or five flashes beginning to move, getting dimmer and disappear. And I can see them wirh my naked eyes at first. Bright, at least 1 mag if not brighter... When they get dimmer I take just a small binocular and follow the flashes. I cannot understand how satellites, which have 4,5 mag at their _max_ , can shine /flash that bright... And I've got another question to our observer friends: do Starlinks rotate? I'm really puzzeled by these kinds of lights in the sky. Sometimes they seem really like "communication", I think I mentioned that in a comment on another video of this channel: nine stationary(!) "double flashes" with a distict pause in between for example.
I see the same thing in my observation of the sky in Connecticut. 😮😢 But I've never seen it stop and I've never seen anything change direction.. when that day happens😮🎉🎉🎉 keep up the good work 😁
I saw something close out in the dsrkness of remote AZ. It was large and seemed as large as ISS, but the speed was to slow, and based on the pattern of the flashing, I figured it was tumbling. There were three others with me, and they saw and determined the same.
Looks like a stationary, but rotating satellite with large solar panels. One of the panels happens to really capture and brightly reflect the sun. Another panel, or the back of the aforementioned panel, does not reflect as much sunlight. This is how I would explain the alternating bright/dim flashes.
something on slower orbit trajectory I think, rotating shiny trash or just signal light from satelite these are less visible, but I can sometimes see them too
Someone else caught the exact same thing near Orion. Im going to look this weekend. I saw some weird flashes and objects just last night. All bluish white lights, some going slow and some going faster than a satellite, but slower than a shooting star and it was lit up all the way across the horizon, no tail.
Could be a pulsar. I've seen this flash a few years ago. they even captured it on the TV show skinwalker ranch. they didn't know what it was, either strang nobody's investigating it, and giving us a logical answer.
Also that shot of orions nebula looked really cool, that would make a nice framed photograph.
The moon
@@TerryP-w2k ????
I’m a commercial pilot and have seen things like this frequently high over the Atlantic on dark moonless nights. My first thought is they are geosynchronous satellites slowly rotating, but I see them naked eye and figure they would be too far away to see which does make me wonder what they actually are?
@@GeeBeeMike exactly. My sightings were naked eye. They flashed brightly, too. One characteristic very slow moving flasher was close to the northeastern horizon slowly moving east just as dawn twilight was increasing.
Planet 9
Does the earth look like a fast spinning quarter from that elevation.
@@lucaslangen3059 A tumbling shiny object would not necessarily have a regular interval. If the thing is spinning on one axis and tumbling on another, it could look very random, just like blown up satellite bits or spent rocket stages.
It's probably aliens though.
@@ruffrider2626
Yep probably.
I'm from Buenos Aires Argentina and i've been seeing those things for years since as far back as 2012. In your case that thing just kept moving in a straight line, but i have seen them stop, stay at the same spot for like an hour, turn and change course and even meet with some of its friends up there and flash at each other until they dissapeared. Great catch, man.
I’ve been seeing these for 12 years now. Various times and frequency of flashes. Cool to see someone else catch this.
it is space junk, sheet metal pieces and other parts in orbit tumbling and reflecting the sun ligth
@@supersabrejet i think its polaris since it doesnt move
@@supersabrejet yeah you work for them
I have seen this in Australia 🦘 space junk would float around not stay in the same place????@@supersabrejet
@@JimiFarkledefinitely not Polaris, which is nowhere near Orion
The object appears to be spinning. The rate of rotation is aprox 28 seconds which means its most likely space debris from a satellite
what are the odds that it would shine on the exact same spot on earth multiple times, with such a long period between?
@@sealteamsix1784it probably reflects light over a large area. It’s not pointed directly at our pov. Considering it stays still I would imagine it’s a geostationary satellite and they got really lucky with timing to see the suns reflection.
Space junk
It’s called an Iridium flash - you are correct, satellites
@@bend_breaks9321 are iridium satellites geostationary? I don't think iridium flares are from geostationary satellites.
I had a powerful green laser and was laying in the grass in my back yard. I was circling a star and suddenly there was a bright almost camera flash of a beam of light that shot down from a dark area of sky directly at us. It was so weird. I stopped and looked for an airplane or something, waited about 30 seconds since I didn’t want to blind a pilot or something. No flashing nav lights or sound. So I pointed the laser in the same spot and again it responded with a bright flash. My daughters were freaked out with one of them rushing inside. Pulled out my phone and did it a third time to no response. Still have no clue what it could have been.
Be very careful about shining lasers into the sky. It could dazzle an aircraft pilot, and as such, the FAA has strict laws about this and you could get into some serious hot water. There have been many incidents like this and people got fined heavily, went to prison or worse.
@ I’m a pilot, I’m well aware. There was not a plane staying stationary in the sky for 5 minutes, beaming a bright light straight down on me.
@@KD-bk7gd Did you consider it could have been a piece of reflective space debris which was simply reflecting your own light back at you like a mirror? I know there's tons of junk and debris out there so it seems plausible. The alignment simply could have not been right to happen the third time you shown your laser.
@ I was circling an area of sky, and it was shining back from inside the circle. It wasn’t reflecting the laser back. Also the laser was green and the light shining back was bright white.
Could have been an iridium satellite flare
So freaking incredible. Your night sky videos are out of this world man. Ive been posting in comment sections with your channel to get people to come see what you are catching. You should be growing very quickly. People give this man the credit he deserves and thumbs up this vid.
Good for you. CTR matters. Which is half a popularity contest, half retention.
@@starababa1Love that emoji~ Hilariously Frightening!!!
I have watched the sky for almost 50 years. A few years ago I started seeing odd, intermittently flashing objects. Now I am seeing other people observe the same thing.
Something that looks like a phone flash up in the night sky?
I'm seeing these on a regular basis, like if I stay out for more than an hour I see one
@@Yarpon Yes, it's aliens taking space polaroids of the Earth. 👽🙌 📸
That would mean that they are man made
its stalites catching light on their solarpanels i believe
On a canary islands I see this things sometimes high over the ocean sometimes just above the ocean. I lived there over 12 year and I see a thousand times. Some of them in a 4-5 flashing light groups.
They must be over gran telescopio or volcano nearby
Yeah bro I’ve seen it flying from Uruguay to Chile, it’s a iridium satellite flare light, it’s just normal 🤷🏻♂️ first time I saw it I was like “oh look ufos” 😂😂😂
Orion Nebula was pretty amazing too!
I’ve looked at Orion 100’s of times and never knew there was any nebula around Orion’s Belt, now I’m gonna have to look again and use my phone. SO COOL!!
dude , this is probably the best ad EVER to buy a telescope. great catch!!
If only electric mounts were at a more reasonable price. It would be extremely hard to zoom this close into the Orion nebula with cranks and wheels.
(Dont get me wrong, EQ mounts are great for beginners)
Get ready to spend some money. He has a nice setup. 12" is pretty good sized
I'd have consent neck pain if i had a telescope
thats what i was thinking, im buying one of those expensive setups in the future
Just west of San Antonio and I've seen this and other strange objects since April this year. Quite amazing as I see this with the naked eye on moonless nights
West San Antonio is where I saw a giant triangle UFO fly over us as we where out on 1604 by sea world. Thing was les than a 1000ft up in altitude. Traveling east to west. Craziest thing I've ever seen.
They have them in the hangers at the AFB
@@DennisNedryJP12 It was heading away from on of the AFB.
@@qbertatxa couple of weeks ago we had a skywatch from the outer boundary of Government Canyon in San Antonio. We captures a light traveling south to north ver, very fast with an object splitting off from it and pacing it and then just disappear.. also we witnessed the lights that flare up orange in the west and disappear that same night between 8pm and 9pm. Scannerguy has video examples of them here on his account. With military grade NV goggles you can clearly see them. Check it out
If it is not moving it is in geosynchronous orbit, about 22000 miles up. Probably parked in a storage orbit for inoperative satellites that have run out of maneuvering fuel. Orion Nebula is very near the celestial equator and at your latitude (42N) is right on the geostationary orbit, so you should see that satellite every night at about the same time.
How late can a high orbit satellite reflect the Sun?
I can see the same on a regular basis. It’s definitely a satellite, mostly always in the same spot and it does two, three bright flashes and roughly the same time of night about an hour or so after dark. I’m also convinced that UFO’s are real, but this is definitely not.
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the flashing interval doesnt seem to be regular :O
Are these not Iridium flares?
Seen quite a number of these lately. Some appear to be stationary and some flash then move a fair distance then flash again. 🤷🏼♂️
Victoria Australia
Saw some of this with the naked eye, 5 or six weeks ago, clear night sky, Northern Ireland. Thanks for your excellent content.
Great catch! Thanks so much for braving the weather and sharing with us :)
Happy to see you here J! :D
Been following your vids for years.
Be well 🙌✨🫂🌠
@@Diverdjent Well Hello There! I hope you're doing well also :)
Seeing this made me remember that satelite i could see naked eye (like any other one when sky is dark in west Africa). The thing is : Satelites dont change their linear course midway to go almost backware with roughly 25-30° angle corner point..... I still don't get many years later what was really happening.
absolutely beautiful sir. thank you so much for you record, beatiful cosmos, beatifual! enjoy that aesthetic, thank you so much.
This is not geostationary. I recorded six of these in the moonless night sky and they had the same slow faint-black-bright-black oscillation creeping across the sky at various angles to the Clarke Belt and far away from it. I observed two at the same time one evening. My guess is very high altitude tumbling booster stages. I could not locate an entry in the sat lists on my sat apps. The one you recorded nearly exactly matches the oscillation pattern I observed on separate evenings. Excellent capture, congratulations.
You sure it isn't geo-sync?
Would booster stages really be bright enough to be seen 1/10th the way to the moon?
How is it not geostationary if it stays in the same place as viewed through a stationary camera? With the stars moving past as the earth rotates? It has to be at 22K miles altitude to do so.
@@MikinessAnalog It would have to be 22,236 miles altitude in the Clarke Belt to be geosynchronous with earth’s rotation. My sightings were nowhere near the CB and at angles away from it and they were moving just as slowly as in this video. The angular motion of this sighting matches my sightings’ motions no matter which direction they were moving. That was the first oddity I noticed about these objects.
@@Bitterrootbackroads How can we assume it is staying in geosynchronous lock? (See if you can track its position relative to the stars in an atlas, estimate its position within the Clarke Belt and estimate the motion relative to earth’s angular momentum.) Not arguing your point, just offering a possible way to see if it is geosynchronous.
It is literally geostationary.
Sooo cool I've seen this flashing light on a few nights now nice to know someone else is seeing it
@@markcaldwell1245but to stop in orbit?
Very good catch. Yes I was out a few nights ago I see these flashing ships or explosions. Saw the comet too! Great catch keep up the great work!
There is a pattern to the flashes, the third flash being a short staccato and then the large burst. I count a total of four pulses, all four are different in brightness and duration, but they repeat over and over. It could be irregular in shape and rotating with a light source. However, my instinct is that something of irregular shape is rotating around a light source.
Thank you. I love watching the skies. We will be seeing incredible movements in our skies these latter days. The KING is on His way🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️
Fantastic footage 👏 You should send it to Anton. He and his viewers would be interested. Thanks for filming and uploading.
I am one of Anton's viewers, and there is no way I would be interested.
Only thing that makes sense is a geosynchronous satellite that’s rotating to maintain orientation. I would guess that flashing occurs only during certain periods of time in coordination with the sun relative to the earth. It would be for communications or something like sat tv.
My astronomer buddy say's it is not a satellite. Must be E.T. spying on Todd.
Give me the gps coordinates of where it was observed or at least within a 1/2 mile or so and the exact time and date and I will confirm it. I am an astronomer. I used to regularly observe satellite activity during acquisitions both in images and in real-time. And now recording the sky is a 24/7 thing I do through 8 automated cameras. 7 of which use stars and location to precisely calibrate position, angle and orientation and use lens models to compensate for field distortion. This gives precise altitude and azimuth of objects or events. From start to finish. And it’s calibrated down to the atomic clock in microseconds. It uses that to calculate speed too. Then using known stars it also calculates brightness in magnitude of said events. For further analysis of a 3 dimensional trajectory and place of origin it uses data from a similar far away station that overlaps the same sky dome.
@@GrowingAnswers Just check around 4am central on the 27th, it's a BEIDOU sat orbiting high enough that it doesn't really matter where the observation is, you'll see it within a degree or two of M42. Another goes by in the same direction at about 5:45am.
I think it could be a lens opening briefly to snap a picture and thus reflecting the ambient light of the earth and whatever else is emitting light (sun, moon, stars, etc.) The brightness varies because of the orientation of the lens, or perhaps multiple lenses in an array. Or it's possibly thrusters from a satellite (probably an Iridium) and those are its thrusters activating to keep it in orbit.
What an incredible video.
To see the flashing light moving also other satellites and meteors wow.Great video thank you for sharing.
I've observed these multiple times and wonder if it's space debris, in orbit, rotating and flashing with reflections of the Sun light.
I've been seeing these for years. Just eyeballing the sky for satellites and catching the 'flash' peripherally. I'd focus on that spot and see exactly what you filmed here. I always thought geosynchronous object. I would be great to know for sure what it is.
I saw this on Thursday night going over North Wales in the UK, glad you caught it on video 👍
I live there and often see stars that meander, no chance they are sateloons
So much strange stuff up there
It’s gotta be a geosynchronous satellite - 22,000 miles up. What else would remain directly overhead?
These 👽 people.
Geosynchronous wouldn't be moving. Rotating yes, but not moving
@@mmixlinus afaik geostationaries are moving within some small area.
@@vmir88 yes, slowly, over long periods of time
@@CiceroSmith-w6o We're all human, some just more human than others.
Yes! I have seen this as well for a couple of years now, off & on. The same 18 sec. or so intervals, but not in the same place every time. It's so bright sometimes, it will refract light in my binocular lens. Glad I stumbled across this here! Somebody else is seeing this!
I’ve seen this in the night sky and it’s hard to describe to others. Excellent find!
It is the tumbling composite solar sail from NASA. Notice the square flashes.
Likewise!!!! It’s one of those sightings you just don’t bring up because it’s just so out of the ordinary
@@markcaldwell1245how do you know that?
I seen the exact same thing in daylight when it was sunny in 2023 and there was 3 of them in the sky just blinking they were brighter than STARS at DAYTIME and they didn't move for 30 minutes, I stood there and watched and other people next to me saw the saw lights all I can think of is it looked exactly like morse code the way they were blinking like they was communicating, this was in Birmingham UK BTW
This is really something, thanks!
Once I was fixed on a certain star formation for a few nights while having a cigarette, the one star I was looking at one night in this formation got significantly brighter and then went out, like someone used a dimmer switch, turned it right up for a second, then turned it down reeeeal quick. The star wasn't there after that. Not sure what I saw, but it was interesting for sure. And so weird that it was the one star I locked my eyes on for like 10 seconds leading up to it disappearing/dying maybe?
PS @0:43 you missed the one to the left that lit up first and then the one you are pointing out…..
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in northland new zealand at night i often see a bright flash spaced 9 seconds apart and slowly moving i have seen it heaps was wkndering if it was iridium flares but every nine seconds?? i dont know
The big flash was regular at 27 second intervals. Interesting!
Practice CE5 protocols and have often seen this type of flash. One night we were seeing them every time we requested it and shortly after 3 black unmarked helicopters came out of nowhere with headlights searching the field we were in and circled until they flew off. This was 3am in the morning so really unusual activity for the area.
So a slow, rotating, geostationary satellite that is not listed…?
How do you know it's not listed?
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman The OP does his homework regarding satelites, as seen by his previous videos.
However, there is obviously no public list of secret military/spy sats available to check against.
@@bigdog5177 which apps are available to check all the sattelites (not only starlink)? i found one but it's not free
@@bigdog5177 redarging debris as well? doubt it, too many of this stuff to check
Loved this so much man. You caught something really special
I recorded something like this on my sionyx scope ( nowhere near as the quality as your camera ) the last video on my channel, i see some strange thing about.
Wow this is amazing. Just now found your channel. Keep up the good work. Love it!
Thinking a 12 inch dobsonian, a satelite would go through its field pretty fast. Focused that far, I don't believe we have satelites that far away that aren't stationary. Whatever it was, that was finding a needle in a haystack.
These are all so far away that there is effectively no difference in the focus for any of them. Focus on any, and all the others are in focus.
Geosynchronous (more or less) space junk
The fact that it’s staying dead center means it’s in a 24 hour orbit, and the Orion Nebula is right on the celestial equator. So it’s in geostationary orbit. I’d also bet on it being a defunct satellite slowly spinning and flashing us with a solar panel reflection in the sun.
It’s almost certainly a geosynchronous satellite. I’ve seen them many times in Orion. It’s near the celestial equator where geosynchronous satellites are located.
I've seen one myself in the same vicinity with a Celestron C8.
Wouldn't a geosynchronous orbit object move at the same apparent velocity as the stars just in the opposite direction? As it would maintain its position relative to Earth.
@@DFMurrayno no shhhh that would make to much sense to the geo bots
Not a chance. Geosync sats are too far away to emit this much light at any size we make them. The flashers appear to be point source light vs reflected. I have seen hundreds of them over 57 years.
Saw stuff like this 8ish yrs. Ago in southern california. Tues/wed. Nights at 2-3am were the best times to witness weird stuff in the sky.
Whatever it is its way out there and going really fast then for it to stop and just sit there is incredible!
I saw something like this in vero Beach FL....i worked on the ocean side ....always got to work early ......always looked to the sky because we had a light ban for the turtles ......i would see what looked just like a flashlight going on and off every so often.....not always in the same spot either ....so weird
I have seen things like this and seen what looked like a normal satellite simply stop dead, then slowly fade out. All kinds of weirdness afoot.
One thing is for sure, it seems to be highly reflective one one side wich makes me think it's a debris of some kind.
We have mini Space Shuttle about a 1/4 the size of the actual shuttle that spends years in space on unmanned, secretive military missions. What this shuttle is doing is anyone's guess!? It's called the X-37B, and is part of the United States Space Force which I doubt many even know about! 😅 Yes, the US has a space force, and what that consists of other than the X-37B I have no idea!? I'm sure that flashing light is something innocuous, but it's fun to try, and identify these objects. Thanks for these very interesting telescope views Todd, can't wait to see more along with the tech views. 👍🎃✌🗽
Combining all that with the Phenomenon, ie., decades of legit cases, encounters, and interaction with some type of non-human intelligence.
Certainly makes one contemplate.
Is it us from the future?
Is it A.I.?
Is it inter-dimensional?
Have they been here all along?
Grusch under oath testified to multiple programs currently in possession of "off world" crafts.
He also shared one example of the alien biologics, as being incomplete under physical examination.
Akin to an incomplete rendering, whereas the internals weren't there in this ET bio robot.
Fascinating stuff.
This video here, superb capture.
Satellite maintenance.
@@John-wd5cb That could be part of it. I like to think we're putting lasers up there if we haven't already. 😅
I remember about the Southern Television broadcast interruption of 1977. The first 2 lines of it were "This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies." I wonder if he was talking about these lights ?
I'm not criticizing,,,Excellent footage,,Excellent capture. When people say,," you need this,, and you need that,,," They must be extremely rich,,,or don't understand that the price of even the individual pieces of equipment for a good telescope cost. Let alone the thousands of dollars that one good piece of equipment cost. Please continue to enjoy your hobby and share and learn.
Thankyou for sharing your finds. ❤🌠🌌🕳
I wonder why through all the years we’ve had telescopes there so dam expensive? Is it because they don’t want the average person looking up maybe? I don’t think they have to worry if that’s the case cuz most of the kids these days prolly have tech neck from lookin down at their phones all the time…….😂 Then again maybe the kids are watching scannerguy1968’s videos! 😜😂🤣 ✌🏼
@@sixstringhans-tone5574 You can get cheap telescopes on e-bay or just the mirrors for them pretty cheap and make your own tube, not that difficult.
Well they’re just saying IF you want a certain quality of photo THEN you need this or that expensive thing
@@sixstringhans-tone5574you got it! It is definitely a conspiracy amongst all the telescope manufacturers out there. The makers of these telescopes definitely do not want you to buy their products because you might look at the sky with them. Better yet, there is some secret law that we don't know about which forces these telescope manufacturers to buy their parts from some government-based supplier who can control the prices so that they are "astronomically" High ... And I would be willing to bet that the moon landing was faked as well right? Take the Tin foil hat off once in awhile
@@sixstringhans-tone5574same reason night vision’s so expensive. Small market
I've never seen a video of a satellite in geostationary orbit before. I wonder how such a video would compare to this one. Great shot
Pretty sure it wouldn't move. That's what the "stationary" part of geostationary means.
@@anonydun82fgoog35 The object in this video is, according to the commentary from the uploader, stationary. What you're seeing is the planet's rotation causing the stars to move behind the object, not the motion of the object itself.
When you look at the night sky with your eyes it's very difficult to see the stars move but when you use a telescope it becomes a considerable problem that has to be accounted for by moving the telescope. Many modern telescopes (especially those used for astrophotography like this one) have an automatic tracking function that will track an object across the sky. In this case, the telescope was (according to the uploader) set to remain stationary. That's how we know this object was stationary - as in geostationary.
You can see non-geostationary satellites zoom across the screen a couple times in the video.
@@anonydun82fgoog35 The object in the video is stationary. The movement of the stars behind it is caused by the rotation of the Earth.
@@anonydun82fgoog35 The object in the video is stationary, the motion is caused by the rotation of the Earth. The fact that the object isn't moving in this shot means that it is stationary relative to the Earth's rotation (as in geostationary).
I've seen this too, but my experience was multiple flashes (that looked like this to the naked eye, like some space aliens are snapping polaroids...) but they were all in various spots, making like an L and a Z pattern with the points, was with family and we all saw it. My only hunch is something in geo stationary orbit, but why would we see the exact same brightness of flashes and in different spots in the same general region of the sky like this? Ours wasn't moving per say, but the flashes were random and not exactly distributed through time, nor position (some were 5-10 degrees away from each other, we saw over 20 flashes then it just stopped.) and we waited over an hour 1/2 after it stopped flashing and it never came back. Noted the time and position relative to the stars but yeah, absolutely no idea. Haven't seen it since. (I kept checking for over a week!) Thought it might be a star at first experiencing some sort of stellar event, or a geostat sat of some kind, but those flashes are so crazy and weird it's really hard to think how these things can be that far away and not moving and just not fall back down to earth. This is what made me think it was something much farther away than simple satellites or debris. I don't think debris/satellites would flash quite that bright either given how it was obviously way brighter than satellites reflecting the sun. Plus, astronomers would be in an uproar if something was flashing like this and disturbing ground based observations. So, who knows? I think it'd be nice to get some confirmation instead of people just replying with 'It's this." and providing zero evidence. Like so; It's 👽
I had an “event” happen on about 15 years ago; I noticed a “star” on successive nights…not behaving like the others. Instead of twinkling…it THROBBED. Pulsed. And when I got my 800mm Nikkor on it, night ….within seconds, it lit up, multi colors…and then ZOOMED to the right, and…GONE! Then the shutter closed. Then I threw up.
“THEY” KNEW…I was watching them. The TIMING….within SECONDS. And that’s when my whole world view…of EVERYTHING, changed. And the PHOTO captured it all. I’ve already had my “disclosure”….everything else is gravy.
So where is this PHOTO?
everything else is gravy being nut?
Probably threw up whatever you drank!
Have you converted to creationism like I did? (Think GMO crop).
Very much reminds me of a lighthouse flash. Probably a rotating shiny object. Fantastic capture!
I was about to say a satellite moves much faster when that one few by.
Great video.
I’ve seen a lot of LEO “Flashers” which seen to be obvious tumbling Sats that you can sometimes only see a few times flashing until they go out of the sunlight and by following a the arc of a couple of flashes predict the orbital path to see more flashes . It would depend on how fast the tumble rate was to how often you could see the flash. Some only a few times before going over the solar terminator so to speak. Some would only be single flashes from a stable array that just happened to be at the perfect angle of sun to me, surely a rare event given the relatively small footprint of the reflections until you calculate just how many Sats are up there, then not so rare ! Consider what would happen if a Geo synchronous sat with a relatively large array went out of service and started tumbling in place, wouldn’t that have this kind of effect ?
I saw a flasher one cold late December night from the hot tub though that wandered around in different directions out at a 45 deg angle ! Now that was no satellite for sure and have seen other anomalies in motion as well . Our’s or “their’s” very advanced equipment for sure which we now obviously have and the outsiders had to have to get here !
Very cool. As long as it just winks at us.
looks like a geo stationary satellite. They tend to be pretty far out so they seem a lot smaller
That's a great catch. If you were just pointed to one spot in the sky, with no tracker, watching the stars move by from the Earth's rotation, some things to me it could be. 1-geosynchronous or geostationary satellite, 2-camera sensor pixel anomaly, 3-Aliens, 4-government shit, 5-glitch in something.
I believe it's a Geo sync/stationary Satellite catching the Sun's rays on various surfaces due to being synced with the Earth's rotation. Just my thought. Great catch anyway.
Yes, that was my thought.
No, I got one on longtime exposure and it‘s not geostationary! I even got approval from Leibniz-Institute for Astronomy that it is unknown for them what these objects are.
Pretty much every time I look at the sky for an extended period you will see these sometimes with the naked eye and especially if I have my night vision goggles sometimes will see 2 or 3 a night very slow moving and sometimes the flash will be very bright and other times dull
Great work with that setup! 👍👍👍👍👍
I see these all the time with my eyes only in the southern Alabama skies. I've been wondering about thos same thing for about 10 years now.
Hi, on holiday in the south of France this year and slept outside under the sky quite a few times. These objects are exactly what I have seen. What is strange is that I have slept outside lots in the years gone by and only saw these objects starting this year. Very strange
I'm pretty sure this is some kind of space debris. It's probably rotating and floating in orbit. Given that it pulsates at a regular interval, one flash followed by a pause and then another repeating pulse-series, repeating in the same way, it's most likely some kind of debris.
revolving geo sat, cheers
I’m in Oxford county Maine and I’ve seen this twice with naked eyes. My thoughts were tumbling satellite, a pulsing propulsion system, or the space station adjusting its orbit. I will say it never fully blacked out, it traveled in a straight line, and it seemed to fade out like a satellite, but I appeared to get big and bright then small and dim.
I live in western Colorado I have seen the same exact thing several times, a very bright flash every 20 seconds or so. Not sure what it is. Keep up the great work!
just a giant ufo that's coming to earth now and then to harvest humans for food
@@Theothesleeper They are here for the metals we mine for them.
@@candui-7 probably but I bet they can mine it themselves lol
@@Theothesleeper Seems like a lot of work. Maybe they could pay someone to do it for them.
@@candui-7 they are able to travel across an ocean of stars but they have difficulty mining some metals in the ground? dont think so. prob takes them 2 minutes while at the helm of their giant spaceship
This is absolutely amazing! Beautiful capture. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I think you’re right on the money, whatever that thing is it sure seems to be rotating.
What it is, is a star ship making a right hand turn...
Regardless of which hypothesis’ given in the comments might be true, kudo’s to you on the fun and awesome video capture. These are the things that keep this hobby enjoyable.
I personally like the suggestions of geo-synced objects or tumbling space debris. The only thing missing there is why did it stop (or appear to stop) in the end? Unless the path was mapped against the star sky and verified with known objects, the math done etc., these are only hypothesis. Still fun!
If we are to try and really capture what we want to believe are alien objects, I would prefer to see said objects change direction, not stay in the same path. I experienced something like that when I was a kid about 8 to 10 years old. I do not remember the year, but early 60’s. I was given a small telescope for Christmas and while out in the yard I saw a moving object very much like this. It was obviously not an airplane, very small in size just like some of the distant stars in my view. As it moved, it stopped and changed direction about a 45-degree angle and then continued. There were not many satellites orbiting in the early 60’s and none of them could stop and change direction. Will never know and does not matter. It was FUN!
Cheers to all and keep watching.
A geo-sync sat will appear to slowly rise and fall from the horizon.
You just need more zoom
I saw the same flashing near Orions belt. It flashed every 41-43 seconds and it moved very slowly. With every flash it was at slightly different location.
That's a defunct geosynchronous satellite in a graveyard orbit.
How so?
@@magnusshrugged this is what a piece of space junk would do after impacting and exploding, spin forever in a 'graveyard orbit.'
The flashers I have seen (hundreds) appear to be source light vs reflected. The light curve is obvious to the naked eye.
Rotating debris maybe? You are in the satellite visibility time window since one passes by. Also seems to be moving in a straight line with just a rough look. It might worth it to take stills from video and connect the dots see if they are straight. I always keep an eye for anomalies ever since I experienced one in fairly low altitude, unfortunately I didn't have anything to record it but nowadays, I am fully equipped!
The galaxy is on Orion's belt. Paging Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
What in the world could it be the more I watch it the more I’m just left with an idk amazement
The StarGate is open ❤
Best guess is an Iridium spy satellite. But it does seem rather small at that zoom level. However, that is consistent with what we see with the naked eye. Unlike most satellites that appear as a solid dot of light moving consistently. The Iridium satellites seem to be rotating and only appear as a momentary bright flash of light. If it is stationary then it is most likely a geostationary satellite. Which would be farther away than most satellites. Pretty neat though to look at the nebula like that.
My guess would be some tumbling space junk at a very high orbit, I suppose geosynchronous if it was stationary in the sky. The tumbling can cause them to flash on and off, especially if the period is regular.
Having said that, in the 1990s I saw what I thought was a satellite one night (naked eye). Watched it for a little while, seemed like it might be going too fast to be a satellite, but wasn't sure. Was trying to figure out if it was a plane or a satellite when it suddenly slowed down, turned, and accelerated straight up like you wouldn't believe. Within about 5-10 seconds it was so high and small I couldn't see it anymore. Damn thing shot straight up into space (and then some) as far as I could tell. No idea what it was. I still think about it.
ruclips.net/video/ecn0EclKIho/видео.html it MIGHT be an ANGEL comming HERE SOON
This is the first time I've seen someone catch this. I have been seeing these things for 10 years but usually moving about the speed of a satellite. The ones I've seen would slowly get brighter and brighter flash and go out. Then a little bit farther away they would start appear and repeat, from horizon to horizon.
I have seen this flash from the same spot with my naked eye for a couple of years now. Sometimes it flashes so bright, its like a camera flash. I was thinking geostationary satellite but wondered how i can see that without any instrumentation? If it were the sun glinting off of a satellite wouldnt the flash disappear late at night?
I've seen this (I'd say pretty much identical to the video) on late night walks a couple of times. First time I watched it for probably a half hour before it stopped and the second time I saw probably 2 rotations (or whatever it's doing) and it disappeared.
Interesting that it appears to not be listed/registered for people to identify.
4:51 Lots of activity around this mark.
AWESOME! You should take a laser pointer out there with you and point it at stuff like that and see if it flashes a light back at you!
Probably send a photon torpedo back 😂
Really strange stuff 🤔
Never do that! You may not be happy if it instantly changes course & comes straight to you.
We have done that and some do flash back.
@@heatherbennett6036 Every 28 seconds.
Such a great video! You make me want to buy a new telesope and a digital camera! Keep doing that important work! Thank you very very much! Subscribed!
I'm watching these kinds of flashes on every clear morning in Germany (saw some this morning, Nov 1st at 5.02 h in western Germany, near Jupiter. Thought it was a Starlink, to be precise No 4008 (comparing real time in HA App). But when I sat down at my laptop and looked in Heavens Above again I realised that I could not have been that satellite I thought it was. And no other matched the line of passing....). So here I go again... More work and digging and research ahead of me...
But what I recognized is that on most occasions the flashes appear when satellites are not in earth's shadow anymore. So that at least points into the direction of satellites. Nevertheless I've made observations of flashes at times where no sattelite was near _and_ at times when satellites were definitely still in earth's shadow. So what light should they reflect? Stationary flashes at first, and after four or five flashes beginning to move, getting dimmer and disappear. And I can see them wirh my naked eyes at first. Bright, at least 1 mag if not brighter... When they get dimmer I take just a small binocular and follow the flashes. I cannot understand how satellites, which have 4,5 mag at their _max_ , can shine /flash that bright...
And I've got another question to our observer friends: do Starlinks rotate? I'm really puzzeled by these kinds of lights in the sky. Sometimes they seem really like "communication", I think I mentioned that in a comment on another video of this channel: nine stationary(!) "double flashes" with a distict pause in between for example.
I see the same thing in my observation of the sky in Connecticut. 😮😢 But I've never seen it stop and I've never seen anything change direction.. when that day happens😮🎉🎉🎉 keep up the good work 😁
I saw something close out in the dsrkness of remote AZ. It was large and seemed as large as ISS, but the speed was to slow, and based on the pattern of the flashing, I figured it was tumbling. There were three others with me, and they saw and determined the same.
WOW! That was COOL! Possibly a geosynchronous satellite slowly rotating or tumbling? Stars are moving because of rotation of the earth?
Looks like a stationary, but rotating satellite with large solar panels. One of the panels happens to really capture and brightly reflect the sun. Another panel, or the back of the aforementioned panel, does not reflect as much sunlight. This is how I would explain the alternating bright/dim flashes.
Probably a piece of space junk rolling.
I love your channel! You show how much stuff is out there in the near orbits.
That would be 25000 miles away.
@@TheGrumpyEnglishman impossible if you can't pass around 300 miles.
something on slower orbit trajectory I think, rotating shiny trash or just signal light from satelite
these are less visible, but I can sometimes see them too
That was a good find!
Someone else caught the exact same thing near Orion. Im going to look this weekend. I saw some weird flashes and objects just last night. All bluish white lights, some going slow and some going faster than a satellite, but slower than a shooting star and it was lit up all the way across the horizon, no tail.
Could be a pulsar. I've seen this flash a few years ago. they even captured it on the TV show skinwalker ranch. they didn't know what it was, either strang nobody's investigating it, and giving us a logical answer.
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I have frequently observed exactly this 'flashing phenomenon' through my telescope as well.
I get photobombed by satellites in that part of the sky all the time.