We had this in our high southwest-ish sky yesterday evening and into the night, and I can't figure out what it was. It was a weirdly shaped bright reflection as the sun was getting low, and as the sun went down it looked like this tiny double-moon thing - even to the naked eye, so not just a camera illusion - and after dark it looked more like the stars as far as shine goes. It didn't move much, if at all, over five or six hours. I didn't get any pictures of the early reflection stage.
I have two apps -- Skye and Stellarium -- that show the names of stuff in the sky as you pan them around, but they didn't tell me anything I could identify as useful. And there's an asteroid that's supposed to hit orbit today and become a second moon for 56 days, but it's not supposed to be visible to the eye or even telescopes (amateur, presumably), so it isn't that.
It really looked, through binoculars, like an 8-shaped moon, but at the bottom there was a dark "slot" at the edge. It looked like the moon looks in the daytime sky, and then, I suppose, like it looks at night when it's bright. I didn't look with the binoculars after dark, though. My neighbor is a pro photographer, and if they're home tonight and it's there again, I'm going to see if he can get some better pics. I do have a small telescope, but it's always been so difficult to set up and get seeing anything properly that we haven't got much use out of it.
Anyway, if anybody has any ideas, I'd really like to know what the heck this is!
From phone camera through binoculars:
From phone camera alone, no zoom.
I have two apps -- Skye and Stellarium -- that show the names of stuff in the sky as you pan them around, but they didn't tell me anything I could identify as useful. And there's an asteroid that's supposed to hit orbit today and become a second moon for 56 days, but it's not supposed to be visible to the eye or even telescopes (amateur, presumably), so it isn't that.
It really looked, through binoculars, like an 8-shaped moon, but at the bottom there was a dark "slot" at the edge. It looked like the moon looks in the daytime sky, and then, I suppose, like it looks at night when it's bright. I didn't look with the binoculars after dark, though. My neighbor is a pro photographer, and if they're home tonight and it's there again, I'm going to see if he can get some better pics. I do have a small telescope, but it's always been so difficult to set up and get seeing anything properly that we haven't got much use out of it.
Anyway, if anybody has any ideas, I'd really like to know what the heck this is!
From phone camera through binoculars:
From phone camera alone, no zoom.
