Something small transited the moon as I was looking through my telescope last night, crossing in a straight line in a southwesterly direction (relative to the moon’s face). Too distant to be a plane, I think. A Starlink satellite? The ISS? Taken on January 31 at 5:55pm in Brooklyn. Would be interesting to find out what it was.
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@bluejay made me think about this video (won't help you but is entertaining)
@bluejay too big for any satellite other than a space station (ISS or the Chinese one), if it's a satellite.
Checked in Stellarium: Tiangong space station stays below the horizon, the ISS is traversing your sky roughly at the right time but doesn't come close to the moon...
@corpsmoderne Thanks for checking! Maybe a Starlink in low orbit, then? Or maybe nothing more interesting than a small or very distant plane.🧐
@bluejay I'd be very surprised if it was a starlink. Even in low orbit, the moon is low on the horizon so any object in space between you and the moon has to be ~1000km away from you anyway...
