Mar 232012
A few weeks back I tried to take some photos of the Pleiades, with results best described as “meh.”
Both photos show a satellite drifting above the Pleiades. Perfectly normal… these things show up all the time as simple white streaks. But on further review another satellite is visible. This one, though, appears to be spinning or tumbling, since instead of a solid white streak it left a series of dots.
Aircraft leave vaguely similar trails… but I’ve never seen an aircraft trail that had the “dots” this close together. And aircraft dots are red and green flashes, not white.
