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Posted 21 April 2020
Satellites are visible in the night sky (like moving stars) - See exactly when and where to look for them e.g times, dates and location.
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We, as a family, ended up watching these last night and it was awesome, along with looking and learning about different stars.
Quite a few going over the UK again tonight, and this week.
No telescope needed!
If you're unsure of direction, i've added a couple of FREE Compass apps to help you find the right location.
Compass app for Google Play
Compass app iOS
Starlink is a project that intends to put 12,000 satellites into the Earth's orbit so they can provide cheap Wi-Fi to the world.
They're built and launched by SpaceX, a rocket company, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
The firm sends its satellites up in batches of 60 at a time and has so far deployed 362 into orbit.
Kind of thing you'll see below
Quite a few going over the UK again tonight, and this week.
No telescope needed!
If you're unsure of direction, i've added a couple of FREE Compass apps to help you find the right location.
Compass app for Google Play
Compass app iOS
Starlink is a project that intends to put 12,000 satellites into the Earth's orbit so they can provide cheap Wi-Fi to the world.
They're built and launched by SpaceX, a rocket company, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
The firm sends its satellites up in batches of 60 at a time and has so far deployed 362 into orbit.
Kind of thing you'll see below
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Edited by Dan_82, 22 April 2020
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sorted byTurns out that filmmakers were pretty much on the money and we’d not only allow everything to get trashed but we’d also come out to watch the destruction.
Quite the opposite I'm afraid. I love locating the ISS and obviously planets in the night sky. Will be looking for this tonight with my daughter.
Depends on the day/night, some will be 2/3, others much more.
e.g tonight there is 41 in a row around 9pm UK time
For those who are also against destroying our night sky there is a petition here:
change.org/p/s…ity (edited)
Sounds like Venus. Low in the sky and super bright. Usually off to the west At around 9pm and moves northwards. Can see it from dusk until the early hours at the moment
We loved it, kids were amazed! Enjoy it
Apparently he wants to put 42,000 of the things up there and other countries including China want to do the same, the skies are going to look very different in the near future.
james.darpinian.com/sat…Ujc
Yes, they probably did, when all that new fangled electricity came into their houses...
So I guess you'll be chucking your mobile phone in the bin too?
I mean you wouldn't want anyone to be able to track your exact position 24/7.
We will have to agree to disagree then, enjoy them anyway
click on the deal - it opens the website - enter your address or post code - then you're taken to street view (in a simulated night view) then you see a simulation of the satellites flying over on repeat - press pause when the satellites are viewable then you can move around like in street view to find the best place to look (edited)
Indeed, it is a fantastic achievement of mankind and should be celebrated, also remember that Elon Musk is running a private enterprise without (direct) support from government... I still can't wrap my head around the complexities of GPS system and that the US military let us use it all or free!
That's a bit dramatic, satellite orbital slots are very carefully administered...
They looked like 4 stars moving in the same general direction (west to east) but they weren't in a line.
It was slightly cloudy though.
Maybe I only saw the first few and the later ones looked more impressive? I shall have another look tonight, I think they are due at about 22:30.
Says a man using a mobile phone and the internet
no sorry lamp posts did that.
I don’t understand why people use the technology to moan about it. If you’re so against it, don’t buy into it. Same people moaning about it will probably post a good deal with EE tomorrow
Ah that's amazing!
We took a few photos, were via phone though, so not very clear but you can just about make them out
Yes a line of dots moving. Not time-lapse
I have seen the starlink train many times and it has never looked like that.
For example, the first sat in the train last night entered the UK area as the last one was leaving Venezuela!!! That is how long the train is and the satellites are spread out over that distance. It takes about 20 minutes for the train to pass. If they looked like the photo, it would be over less than a few minutes.
Indeed. But considering this same picture has been posted on numerous social media sites with people claiming to have taken the shot from, but not limited to, Swansea, Durham, London, Belfast, Budapest, & Moscow, unless those houses have been built in separate countries exactly the same way, its pretty safe to say this might not have even been last night.
I just dont want people going outside expecting this image when they are further apart in real life and you’ll only really see 6-8 max across the sky at any one time. (edited)
It does feel a bit like that doesn't it? I wonder if the early ocean explorers found it cool to find some human garbage in unexplored oceans.
the star is sirius - its easily the brightest star over the UK at the moment orions belt points towards it..its not Venus as at the moment in the UK Venus doesnt appear in the sky till the early hours of the morning before first light. (edited)
Correction.. the latest Venus rise and set times for Greenwich can be checked here theskylive.com/ven…nfo
Times will only be a couple minutes different for the rest of the UK.
Clearly, Venus sets shortly after midnight at the moment, and will be visible in the sky for most of the evening from sunset. It will be the brightest object in the sky, apart from the moon.