Unidentified Lunar Object?

Here's a frame from an AVI set I imaged of the moon a week ago. It's of an object that passed across the moon. My best guess is that it's either a weather balloon or a satellite. On the original video, it's definitely circular in shape.

The photo is one frame of the video. It lasted a couple seconds on the video, which I imaged using a six-inch f/9 Starfire AP refractor at prime focus using my DMK camera at 30 fps.

My son, who is far more adept at the technology than I am, put the video sequence on his YouTube site. Just go to www. youtube.com/shoteye and click on the moon video. Very interesting sequence.

Steve Thornton

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I saw the same thing a few years ago and was VERY excited about it. I seem to remember the one I saw as being a little larger, more sharply defined, and moving more slowly. I was told it was a weather balloon as well... Hmmm... Isn't that what they said about Roswell???

I do think it was some sort of balloon in my case and is probably the same for you - the wind was probably blowing harder for you.

Pat

Even a child's Helium balloon would give this type of image. The balloon will move pretty quickly because it is close, so it would move across the Moon in only a few seconds. It would be round, and dark against the Moon. I have seen this a few times, sometimes I could even see the string from the balloon, if it was very close.