[sleavelessinseattle]

BE SURE to click on the Milky Way shot...Granted it was an APOD of yore, but its worth visiting again via tonight's APOD DESPITE a rather humdrum main graphic...PLEASE don't shoot the HTML EDITOR!!!8-O...But its open season on his broken links! Fire away FReepers!(That means politely point out errors!)
BTW, Thank You ALL for your support of APOD!
BR
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[sleavelessinseattle]

APOD PING!
Many nice links, sort of a Celestial Pot Pourri!

[kayak]

I have some questions I hope someone who sees this can answer. First, let me state that I am not an Art Bell think-alike ....... *grins*

Tonight hubby and I were out on our deck for a few minutes and noticed what at first appeared to be an airplane quite high up so it was just a tiny speck of light. As I watched it, it soon became obvious that it was not a jet.

It's movement was somewhat erratic ..... it would seem to almost stop; then it would move ahead in little spurts; and then would seem to move straight ahead again. Although generally heading in a southwest direction, it did not move in a straight line but sometimes meandered a little. We watched it for over 10 minutes and in that time it had traveled possibly 15-20 degrees across the night sky.

Could this possibly have been the ISS? Has anyone seen it to know how it "behaves" when crossing the sky? Any other ideas what this might have been?

This was at about 10:30 p.m. EDT in south-central NC.

[formerDem]

Per your advice, I checked out the milky way photo. Bee-yoo-tee-ful!

Thanks!