K... I just aimed my Yukon Ranger night vision scope out the window a few minutes ago.
I looked straight up and immediately noticed that one of the “stars” was moving directly East. So I captured 2 minutes of continuous video. In those 2 minutes I estimate that the object traveled about 15 degrees of sky.
At that rate, the object would require about 24 minutes to cross the entire 180 degrees of sky. For a satellite to be able to orbit that slowly would require it to be quite high in it’s orbit... like WAY high... close to geosynchronous orbits which are 1000s of miles high, not 100s.
Not sure if something that high is going to be visible with a little device like this. The clip itself isn’t very exciting but the implications of what it could be are. Please share your thoughts..