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Hi!<br /><br />It's my first post but I guess everybody has to have the first time. I've been out the last 3 nights in a row because of excellent weather here in Helsinki and to prepare myself for the coming meteor events. More meteors each night plus one really slow moving large fiery ball.<br /><br />But tonight I saw something different. I've chosen a spesific quadrant that I keep an eye on laying on the ground for an hour or two. I chose this spesific direction after a few nights of familiarizing myself with the sky to see where most satellite trajectories seem to intersect. At times it's possible to see 4 - 5 satellites racing through the sky, mostly at polar or near polar orbits but other intersecting orbits aswell.<br /><br />As I was laying on the ground some movement caught my eye. At first I thought it was another satellite entering my view but very soon I noticed the movement was entirely different. It was not a satellite, although the brigthness was very similar, because it didn't move on an arc as if it was on orbit but the movement was irregular. It accelerated and moved a bit, then suddenly turned direction as much as 90 or even 180 degrees. It was basically "dancing" in the sky. No other stars seemed to do this and satellites just kept racing across the sky.<br /><br />I watched this dancing star for an hour and a half and when I left it was still there. I would say it's relative position did not seem to move but clearly there was motion, acceleration and deceleration and sudden change of course. As if somebody drove on a parking lot randomly.<br /><br />Is this related to athmospheric movement in the upper athmosphere and is it possible to create this kind of result for just one star? This "dancing" star was inside of several more brighter stars but it's brightness was enough so that I could spot it immediately again when I moved my eyes momentarily away and then located the dancing star again. <br /><br />It just kept dancing. You can bet that I am going to be