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Maybe somebody here can help me understand what I saw a couple of years ago. Basically, I saw what appeared to be two satellites on a collision course. One was
by ficklepickle 6y ago
Maybe somebody here can help me understand what I saw a couple of years ago.
Basically, I saw what appeared to be two satellites on a collision course. One was bright and travelling across my FOV from left to right fairly slowly. Then another much dimmer and faster light appeared in the right of my FOV and appeared to be on a collision course.
At the moment of apparent collision (from my POV) they appeared to very rapidly orbit around each other some number of times, before continuing on their original course. I believe the dim one was moving more slowly than before, but I am unsure.
This happened around July of 2018 I believe. From lat,lon of about 49.25,-123.12 looking south at the night sky at about 45°.
My best guess is it was an optical illusion, the two satellites were at different altitude and only appeared to be on a collision course from my point of view. Some sort of lensing effect? I don't know.
- Exmoor 6y agoCan't explain it for you, but I saw something vaguely similar to that 10-15 years ago a couple hours drive south of there. Two satellite-type objects traveling across the sky roughly parallel and then they shifted trajectories so they crossed paths several times. Very perplexing.
- tacocataco 6y agoI'm not a scientist or anything, but your optical illusion, could it be this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens