JRS: In article , dated Thu,
26 Aug 2004 22:36:57, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Robin May
posted :

Last night I saw an extremely bright point of light in the sky. I'm in
London and this light was to the East. Could anyone help me to identify
it? It was really amazingly bright.

For how long did you see it, and at what altitude was it?

If it was fairly low, it could well have been heading for Heathrow; I
often see them from here, with no apparent movement for a minute or so,
at a magnitude in the -5 to -10 region. They usually twinkle or jitter
a little.

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