What tools do I need to track an orbit of a mystery object?

Question

A while back I was observing Uranus with my 6" dob and a moving object tracked across my field of view. I was at about 90x at the time, and the object was pretty bright but slow moving. I dropped down to about 40x and it was still visible, if faint, which allowed better tracking. I followed it for a good 5 minutes until I lost it after a chair bumped my scope. It was clearly moving in the plane of the ecliptic and in the right direction. If that were to happen to me again, what do I need to have to get a reasonable track on it? Is it just a time plot vs. background stars and my exact location, or is there something more I need?

Answer 1

Was that a satellite or celestial?

I might suspect that it seems like a celestial object as you can observe it 5-min long~!

To track the orbit of new celestial objects??

We need to record the exact positional variations with 3-different epoch at least~!

(This is the basic orbtal-detrmination method using Keplerian motions).

That is what you need to record with it using relative positions among stars.

So, taking photographs with a long time-span as many as possible.

Thanks!