r/askastronomy • u/just4PAD • 2d ago

What did I see? What might resemble a "drunk" satellite?

I was stargazing for maybe 20 minutes andnI saw 2 or 3 objects that resembled satellites, and were going at about the same speed, but were wobbling slightly instead of going perfectly straight. They also appeared to be speeding up and slowing down slightly. They had no blinking lights and appeared to stay the same size. I saw plenty of planes and satellites which were behaving normally during this time as well.

What could those have been?

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u/Waddensky 2d ago

A few birds, or possibly some form of autokinetic effect.

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u/just4PAD 1d ago

Ive seen the auto kinetic effect with stars but didn't know it had a name lol thank you

I was wondering birds a bit, but wouldn't they look like they're changing size if they were birds bc of the wings flapping?