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Should be able to see a satellite train tonight!

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink

In reply to WaterMonkey:

If its from the March 18 launch I wouldn't imagine they'll be all that close together by now.

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Thanks for that, pencilled it in for Thursday night,

Chris

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Ah yeah, saw them last night. Initially thought it was just a single satellite but realised it must have been starlink after they just kept on coming. 

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Cool link. Thanks for sharing.

First time I saw them was convinced there was an alien invasion going on!!

In reply to WaterMonkey:

I filmed them a few nights ago, they are most impressive to watch! Blocked a bit by the moon at the moment which makes the night sky not very dark.

They are from the 17th Feb launch, the March 18th launch ones pass over at ~5AM

youtube.com/watch?v=wr2BFREbwZQ&

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Just seen them! Brilliant! Thanks for the tip off

In reply to Trangia:

Yes, also seen and great thanks

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Too murky and bright from where I am

In reply to richard_hopkins:

I made another (short) time lapse of tonight's 21:40 pass.

This was more of an experiment to see how different they'd look with a 50mm lens rather than 24mm from the previous film. I halved the exposure time to 1s, so the trails look the same length because of the longer focal length but I preferred the wider field of view of the 24mm lens. 

youtube.com/watch?v=WT-xr7ZUANs&

In reply to WaterMonkey:

Saw them too, thanks. I was surprised especially with the full moon and I was looking towards a street light as well.

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

In reply to nikoid:

Brighter than intended or anticipated, it seems.

In reply to WaterMonkey:

I'm glad everyone saw them, too bright last night so got up at 04:50 this morning and still too bright here!

In reply to WaterMonkey: Too bright just now also. Lovely clear night but a bright moon and sunset not long enough ago. Will try again tomorrow 

In reply to Siward:

Yes bit of a letdown

In reply to Tom Valentine:

We went out to have a look but couldn't see anything, but it was a very bright night. 

How quickly do they pass across the sky? Are they like shooting stars or do they take 15 minutes to go across like the iss? 

In reply to deacondeacon:

All low earth orbit satellites take about 90 minutes to make one orbit, so you can usually see them for 3 or 4 minutes. 

In reply to Pedro50:

Thanks pedro.is that the same for the iss? It seemed longer but I wasn't counting  

In reply to deacondeacon:

Sameish 

In reply to deacondeacon:

Is orbit is 92 minutes, but it is significantly brighter than Starlink.  Unless it is really dark, each Starlink fades from view fairly quickly with my eyesight!  However, the next ones are usually in view, so a different experience, but at very similar transit speeds