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kleinbl00  ·  2795 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules

I'll be astonished if it isn't a military comsat. It's X-band, which is a 2-meter dish, over Russia.

Either that or a (cough cough) Kardashev II civilization.





b_b  ·  2794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A comsat should hang in the same spot in the sky though, assuming it would be in a geosynchronous orbit. Anything in any orbit around the earth should be easily distinguishable from a point source from a star, whose position is fixed.

kleinbl00  ·  2794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Naaah. A military comsat can be wherever so long as you know to point it. Navy has a crapton of comsats in all sorts of orbits; I assume everyone else does, too.