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kentuck

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3. How long did it last?

Reply to TEB (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 24, 2020, 06:41 AM

Jul 2020

I just saw something fly by...but it only lasted a couple of minutes...about 4:10 CMT...it was under the Big Dipper. I did not see the tail. It must have been a satellite? Which direction was it headed? Toward the horizon?

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A Celestial Event [View all] kentuck Jul 2020 OP

... Celerity Jul 2020 #1

Kentuck did you get to see the comet TEB Jul 2020 #2

How long did it last? kentuck Jul 2020 #3

Comets kind of hang in the sky rather than whiz by soothsayer Jul 2020 #4

Thanks! kentuck Jul 2020 #5

No, I was totally surprised the first time I saw a comet! soothsayer Jul 2020 #10

Maybe the International Space Station? JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2020 #6

It was moving to the East at a rather rapid clip. kentuck Jul 2020 #8

That sounds like space station. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #14

That was it! kentuck Jul 2020 #15

Same here not long TEB Jul 2020 #13

Time lapse per IG page of Dr. Brian May (also of Queen) tavernier Jul 2020 #7

Beautiful! kentuck Jul 2020 #9

May is an astrophysicist tavernier Jul 2020 #11

It was like a giant Lantern shining down to Earth from the Heavens, looking for intelligent Life. kentuck Jul 2020 #12

Apparently didn't find many, lol tavernier Jul 2020 #16