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Default Cellphone cameras are proving to be unexpectedly useful

"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Radiosrfun wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
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feebo wrote:

I wonder if this is some satellite thingy - NASA have recently (last
month or so) been playing with docking and un-docking some satellites
to test for manouverability of robot spacecraft:

You could take one of those car lot spot lights up into space to the
space station, and the spot size it would make would be like a
pinhead.
Those are far closer the Earth than any orbiting object. D'OH!

Do you have an opinion on what they could be ?


Just a wild guess - maybe the marking lights on a Blimp going over?


It was stationary (not 'going over') and silent (no engines) though. I'd
expect
a blimp's gondola to be visible too. Plus, aircraft are required to have
flashing lights, not ones that are continuously illuminated.


Graham



You could be correct, I've never seen a "blimp" at night (least not that I
can actually recall). As I said, was a wild guess.