Skyline Satellites!

[PeteB]

Winch and I driving across Southern Crete, I stopped for a pee while she looked at the stars - not much light pollution. I was back in the rental and she exclaimed in surprise at the night sky. I whipped the phone and took this! Bloody rare to catch!

[GarethM]

Those will be the newly launched SpaceX on the 17th. Over time the spread out into a constellation.

[nepia]

I thought it was time lapse of a single satellite.  If not what's going on?

[Peasgood]

What Gareth said.

Very much against them personally as it all seems a bit chucking junk up there now we have messed everything up down here. Also not a big fan of Musk.

Do have Starlink though which is a massive hypocrisy but the only internet that actually works here.

[GarethM]

Definitely agree with @Peasgood, more space junk, fortunately it's within our orbit so will eventually return and burn up upon reentry.

 

Just a bit daft everyone with competing systems, Amazon were doing aswell.

 

Surely easier to invest in the land based fibre infrastructure, almost as hypocritical as sky and their net zero pledge whilst firing up a new satellite every few years.

[Mick Dempsey]

Yes, seen that out here on a clear night. 
Amazing. 

[nepia]

So what is the pic?  One satellite on time lapse?

 

You can see loads of satellites on a clear night although that one is very bright; you just need to look for moving stars that obviously aren't planes!

[marktownend]

It's a chain of recently launched satellites, they all get 'ejected' from a single launch vehicle and gradually spread apart. Don't know much about it but saw them when on holiday in Devon a few weeks ago. New launches every few days/weeks?

 

www.findstarlink.com is a basic tracker (edit - ignore the 'tracker' link, it's something to do with Arbtalk being sponsored by a tracker company or something, every time you type tracker it automatically puts a link to an equipment tracker and I can't find how to type tracker without it putting a link in) for them, enter your location and it'll tell you potential upcoming sightings,time, direction, brightness etc.

Edited October 20, 2023 by marktownend

[trigger_andy]

Thats a cool picture! I have Starlink as well. Gone from 8mbps to between 150-300mbps. 

[Peasgood]

On 20/10/2023 at 10:12, nepia said:

So what is the pic?  One satellite on time lapse?

No it is real time. Each time they launch a fresh batch that is what you see until they spread themselves out, I have seen it myself more than once.

There are 5000 up there now of a plan of possibly 40,000.