Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "Space Station Transiting 2017 ECLIPSE, My Brain Stopped Working - Smarter Every Day 175" video.

  1. can you ever see a geosynchronous satellite?
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  2.  @harryithink5336  Wow, interesting! Even at dusk if you catch a glint of sunlight reflecting off their solar panels? (I thought I saw something like that a few weeks ago, no telescope)
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  3.  @jimsagubigula7337  Thank you! Mind. blown. . The first flash I saw was not quite as bright as Venus, which was in the sky at the time, from our mountain cabin in northern NM... at roughly 230 azimuth by 45 elevation, this past April. . I figured it was a distant headlight from a plane or helicopter sweeping my location -- it felt more a headlight sweep that than a rapid on/off "blink" of airline signal lights -- so I stared at that part of the sky. A single flash repeated ~11 times, recurring every couple minutes. It went through various colors. . At first I thought the flashes were moving through Orion, but after calculations I decided Orion was moving behind it, as the angular speed was on the order of earth rotation speed. . The 2m interval was completely regular as far as my mental counting could deduce. After a half dozen bright flashes, of various color tones, they got dimmer, fading out ~ 9:30 pm, the last few very dim and dull-orange. . So I thought, geosynch satellite! Holy tamales! Must be spinning once every two minutes...!! With huge panels! . But maybe not...!? I did think it was odd they were brighter than any other satellite I have seen, and colored, and rotating so slowly. But maybe that's not too slow for a big satellite... idk . I went back to the cabin a couple weeks later and watched that part of the sky for a half hour, and saw one single flash, exact same area... then 25 minutes of eyes peeled and nothing but some wonderful tiny meteors, normal satellites, and a few planes being socially distant. .
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  4.  @jimsagubigula7337  Yeah I haven't seen a satellite flash like that, seen them slowly pulse as they rotate but not flash! So, this time in April... I never saw an object, just a series of a dozen flashes, appearing to move from West to East right across the chest of Orion, which was in the SSW. The apparent motion was so slow that quite possibly the flash source was not moving, but Orion was setting behind it, although I didn't think of that at first. . The first flash was just to the right (west) of Orion's body, under his armpit. It made a squashed triangle with Bellatrix and Mintaka. It was whitish like Venus, and so bright it drew my eye and I stared to detect a source. . The next flash appeared a couple minutes later, a little to the left of that, slightly up, and red. The third, right on schedule, was blue, and I'm like "It's definitely moving left -- because it's about to hit Orion in the ribs!!" . After six or so they had crossed Orion's body. The next six, each one was further east and up, and dimmer, the last three rapidly dimming, and the last one so dim and orange I could barely see it. . The whole dozen flashes took at least 20-30 minutes. I didn't look down the whole time lol. My eyelids are dry thinking about it haha but it was worth it!! .
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