Originally Posted by Siguy

I just opened up this image I took on December 17 at 9:30 PM. It is of the area around Beta Tauri. I just noticed a fuzzy object about a degree and a half north-west of Alnath that at first I thought was a star.

Nice picture. What was the exposure and focal length? My guess is several minutes and f=135mm, since the stellar magnitudes go deeper than +12. If the focal length is 135 mm, then the plate scale would be 10 arcsec per pixel. With a one minure exposure most satellites should move visibly with that plate scale. I stretch the picture in Photoshop and still don't see anything unusual other than some blue flair around beta Tau. How many pixels relative to beta Tau are you looking?

Take a picture of the same location next time you have the opportunity and see of the mystery object is still there.

hha