Kenton
New Member
I was out looking for a meteorite shower on Friday, May 23, but found a strange path of white across the sky instead. I first noticed it around 11:40 PM. It stretched from the northern horizon, about 10 degrees west, up over my head a bit to the east and disappeared far to the south, south-east.
I was told it might be a light pillar but it was unusual. It was about 11:40 -12:00 at night and completely dark out. No moon and very clear skies. It was not vertical or straight north and south, and it extended far to the south. It looked more like a streak of northern lights but it didn't move. After a few minutes it started to disappear from the south. I wanted to get an overhead picture but my tripod would not let me shoot straight up. The picture I have is near the end when it was already fading. A friend of mine, 120 miles to the south-east, saw the same thing. I was a few miles north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada, and he was near Norquay. We both saw a light, maybe a satellite, traveling alongside it from the south and all the way to the horizon in the north.
Photos here:
https://plus.google.com/101987429061723342886/posts/4Ej28MUnKZC
[Admin Edit: It does indeed appear to be a very unusual light pillar from the Sun, which is below the horizon below where the column is]
[The above overlay has a slight vertical offset to demonstrate the stars in the photo and the Stellarium recreation all line up]
I was told it might be a light pillar but it was unusual. It was about 11:40 -12:00 at night and completely dark out. No moon and very clear skies. It was not vertical or straight north and south, and it extended far to the south. It looked more like a streak of northern lights but it didn't move. After a few minutes it started to disappear from the south. I wanted to get an overhead picture but my tripod would not let me shoot straight up. The picture I have is near the end when it was already fading. A friend of mine, 120 miles to the south-east, saw the same thing. I was a few miles north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada, and he was near Norquay. We both saw a light, maybe a satellite, traveling alongside it from the south and all the way to the horizon in the north.
Photos here:
https://plus.google.com/101987429061723342886/posts/4Ej28MUnKZC
[Admin Edit: It does indeed appear to be a very unusual light pillar from the Sun, which is below the horizon below where the column is]
[The above overlay has a slight vertical offset to demonstrate the stars in the photo and the Stellarium recreation all line up]
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