This video demonstrates how amateur astronomers identify celestial objects by analyzing their movement patterns and characteristics. The host uses a 10-inch Dobsonian telescope to observe the moon and stars, explaining that satellites typically move east to west in an arcing pattern, while aircraft move in different directions and often have blinking lights. The host also discusses how cloud cover can create optical illusions that make stationary celestial objects appear to move, and how environmental factors like haze from fires can affect visibility. This illustrates the importance of systematic observation and pattern recognition in astronomy.
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Added:This is me here again.
The moon's move. Got to move it up. Oh man, it's getting late and the moon is going away. So, I got it for a little bit longer and that'll be about it.
Should be on it right there. There it is.
a little bit.
It's a little bit cloudy tonight. It's very humid.
Might see a star.
Oh, there's a lot of spires up to the north almost all in the zenith which just straight up.
I see one. It's real pretty. I might shoot it in a second.
Lot of cloud cover now.
Lot of cloud cover.
Lot of cloud cover.
Welcome in. Hit the share. Subscribe.
That's cloud cover in the background.
You might see some clouds pop up.
That look like a beam there. I think that was a plane.
Time keeps on slipping into the future.
Yep, it's slipping right. That's it right there. That's a gorgeous view.
I'm on a 10-in Dobsonian telescope, you guys. Coming in. I got a cell phone hooked to it.
All right, guys. Hit the share, please.
Get your country in there.
Straighten it up a little bit.
Sorry, I bumped it with my knee.
Put the share.
Share it out.
It's live. No rerun. Streaming.
Free.
Free for all streaming out.
It's not NASA. It's It's the moon in my front yard.
Thanks for sharing it.
Try to get you the best views I can here.
It's a little cloudy outside.
Good crescent moon. Cuz the moon All right.
Thanks for coming in. Thanks for stopping by. Might look at a few stars in a minute. There's a lot of stars straight up.
I see one that looks real pretty.
Oh, let's take a look at a star. All right, guys. While mentioning it, there's one probably I can't even see, honestly. Oh, let's see what we got.
There's one right there.
Should be right on it.
really really close.
Should be very bright. It's weird. I'm either above it or below it, huh?
Should be right there.
I don't know why I'm not seeing it.
That should be a bright star. I see a constellation or two, huh?
Well, that's weird. I'm right on top of it.
Must be a lot of cloud cover.
We just go back to the moon. It's unusual. I usually can get a really good shot.
I'm kind of I'm really blown away that I can't get it. Oh, wow. Just saw a damn Oh my god. I just saw a Oh, I just saw I don't know if it's a meteorite or something flew by. I don't see no lights.
God, what was that? How's it going, Steve?
Oh man, I don't know what that was.
Crap. I got I think it might have been I don't know what it was.
It was linear. So gosh.
Yeah, it was linear. Whatever it was, guys, I just saw something.
It was fast. I mean, extremely fast. No blinking lights. I think it was a satellite.
It was crazy. We're doing okay. How are you, Steve?
Oh my gosh, it was so fast.
Look, I think it had to be a I don't know. It's weird.
God, I'm getting hot.
I usually don't take my shirt off in the subdivision, but it's so freaking hot out here.
Um, I don't know what I just saw. I just saw something. I'm trying to think in my mind.
[sighs] Because satellites don't go. Let's see.
I see a satellite now. Hang on.
I'll try to try to get up later. We'll try to get this satellite. We'll see if it's the same thing.
[clears throat] >> I see a satellite.
I see.
I don't know. I don't think it was a satellite.
What the hell? It was It was fast. It had no lights. That was a satellite just then.
They move like east to west. This was going north to south.
Oh [sighs] god. Oh, guys from my land. I'm going to caught UAP.
Don't think that's what it was, but I guess military jets.
You know, Steve, if they can turn their lights on off.
I do live by base about 20 miles away.
I mean, it had to be going God, I don't know, four or five times faster at least than a a jet appearing in the sky and way faster than a satellite.
I don't know what it was. Saw a deer out here tonight, Steve, earlier.
Yeah, I was sitting out here.
He just walked up on me about 20 years ago. I was sitting out at night, but it was a lot later than this.
It was like 3:00 in the morning. I was looking at Mars.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and change my theory. Satellite because that's the second one I've seen.
I'm gonna say it's satellite, not a UAP, guys, but a big old giant Irish wolf hound came up on me. I was like, I just I thought it was a a wolf and I just just stopped.
I live closer to the mountains and it just stopped. It froze.
>> [clears throat] >> Yeah, the moon is very mesmerizing tonight.
It with that cloud cover almost feels like it's moving but it's not.
or it appears to be moving, but it's not. It's the cloud cover.
Oh, well, it's moving. Let me rephrase that. It's always moving, but we're always moving, but the cloud cover makes it look like it's moving in the scope.
I when I move it like now, it's like going back and forth or whatever.
Wobbling.
Man, that was a high intense feeling when I thought that was a UAP, but it wasn't.
I figured I just It's got to be a satellite.
I don't know. I've just never seen one go in that pattern.
Usually they're east to west.
I don't know.
I photograph the ones that Elon Musk does and I photographed the dragon.
All those always look at arc.
This this was going from like directly west to east or north to south depending on which way you were looking at it.
But not orbital looking. It was looking more like the way a jet fire. But I just got a I just got a satellite for that change.
Man, it was fast. Jeez.
Yep. It is right over my tree line as far as I can see. I'm going down right now. Probably in the next 10 minutes it'll be out of sight.
I'll share it out one more time for fires. Actually, it's possible, but I believe it's just a cloud.
It's about to drop below the horizon. So, put as much out there as I can right now.
Zoom in.
Yeah, it was really clear earlier. So, it's either the smoke from the fires or the cloud cover.
I see a plane. I can hear it. I don't know if you guys can hear it, but whatever I saw did not make a sound.
It certainly did not have light.
Yeah, it's not me m moving the thing around. That's the cloud cover making it appear to bounce around like that.
Oh, there there's something. Do you see that, Steve?
I don't know. Oh, there's the clouds.
You can see the clouds or smoke. I'm not sure what you want.
Something just went up through there. I don't know. It looked black looking. It probably was a bird.
Yeah, I think it is.
Wow.
It's It's really covering up. I think it's the smoke.
A porcupine.
Well, one attack my dog years ago when I was a little kid. It was rough.
He survived it, but Yeah, we definitely got the haze from it. I was in Atlanta with my son and yeah, we got the haze from it. It's already really hazy in Atlanta. So, yesterday he had MRI.
It was real hazy and I'm getting either I'm getting it a lot right now.
It's either the haze of the clouds or the trees. One or the other.
Oh, there's a satellite again.
>> Hang on, guys.
I want to try to see that the satellite.
That one's going straight up.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So far yeah, we've got armadillas that have moved here in the last few years.
I don't know, probably in the last I don't know, it's probably been a little bit more than 10 10 years they've been here.
Besides that, yeah, I've never seen a porcupine while it did when I was a kid.
There's a real pretty star, but I don't know. I just I don't think I have my red dot lined up good cuz it's right on top of it.
Turn around and look at the big dipper.
Star usually the clearest.
Yeah, it must be the it must be the cloud cover. It's just There's the big dip right here. It's bank.
I don't know if you Yeah, you can't even see it. It's must be the cloud or smoke.
There's no clouds there, so I'm guessing it's probably the smoke.
It should be really bright. I'll take my lens out.
It could be jumbled up.
Oh boy, I just felt the wind.
Oh gosh.
winds.
It's all wind.
All right, guys. I'm going to what I did. I dropped a lens inside a lens.
You have a good night, Steve. I'm going have to call it and fix this lens.
Take care, buddy.
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