Did anyone in MA see the object going SE just after the ISS flyby tonight(4/18/15)?

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Tonight I was outside watching the night sky and caught the flyby of the ISS heading NW around 9:25 p.m. within minutes after in the opposing direction I saw an object much brighter than the ISS going SE. It seemed to have a faint glow around it and then faded to black. I'm assuming it went into the earths shadow. I tried to see if it was an asteroid or anything but I can't find any info. Does anyone know what it was? I highly doubt everyone missed such a bright large object in the sky like this so I was surprised to not find a thing about it.

2015-04-18T20:23:33Z

So if Lodar is correct then what was the object going SE? Either way. I just want a thorough answer.

Peter T · Accepted Answer

I think you might have misunderstood Lodar. The bright object going SE (after rising from the NW) was the ISS. The question then seems to be what was the fainter object you saw earlier heading NW.
You could try heavens-above http://www.heavens-above.com/
I tried using Boston, MA for the evening of April 18 and the best I could come up with was Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 3A which reached mag 3.6 and headed towards the NW, disappearing at about 9:20.  The ISS would then have risen from the NW a few minutes later and headed SE, fading to black about the time it got near Jupiter.

? · Answer

The ISS wouldn't have been going NW, it would have been going SE.

Did anyone in MA see the object going SE just after the ISS flyby tonight(4/18/15)?

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