slicktry Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Last night while fishing for Channel cats, a nice burst of northern lights appeared. It was beautiful with different shades of green, blue, red, orange coming through. I guess there must've been a pretty good solar flare. Anyway, we saw a satellite coming towards the lights. It was travelling at a pretty good clip, but on a straight path. As soon as it got close to the lights, it started to wobble a bit. Within seconds it was moving sideways and was obvoiusly being slowed down by the plasma. I have never seen a satellite travelling so fast become so agitated like this before. I don't know the exact reasons why the satellite was affected this way. It might have been decommissioned, or wasn't properly turned into the way of the plasma. We saw others that orbited behind it and they all appeared to be VERY faint, as if they were turned to use their protective shields. Anyways, this is something I have never seen. I would compare it to a car sliding on ice, then getting traction, only to be on ice again. Incredible sight. Oh yeah, also managed to catch a master angler channel! God Bless Jer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Jer , I guess the BC bud was really working when you saw that LOL Only in Manitoba dude :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slicktry Posted September 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2005 That bud was definitely not from Victoria :spit: I still want a big laser gun so that when a Satellite gets decomissioned, I can go and shoot it down. :bomb1: God Bless Jer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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