OK all you smart people, what did I see? This evening (12-7-05) at approximately 5:15pm, I was looking at the moon and saw what appeared to be a star directly east of the moon. I could see Venus to the west and Mars was not yet visible. I watched the "star" for about three minutes trying to figure out what star would be brighter than Mars (although nowhere near as bright as Venus). It was still too early to see Deneb or Capella and that is why I was paying so much attention to the "star" because I couldn't figure out what star could be seen so early. (Although it had set in the valley, the sun was still shinning on the mountain tops) After three or so minutes the "star" had disappeared so it clearly was not a star. My conclusion was that I was seeing the reflection of the Sun off of some object, but clearly it was not a plane, as it did not change position relative to the Moon for at least three minutes. So what was it? My uneducated "guess" is that it was a satellite but I didn't know if a satellite could give off enough of a reflection to look like a star so I am asking those of you who know a whole lot more than I do about such things; what was it? Ed L __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com