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30 strong convoy of high altitude aircraft just passed overhead

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    #122
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?launchid=2020006&lat=52.3762&lng=-6.3826&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=GMT

    https://www.heavens-above.com/StarlinkLaunchPasses.aspx?lat=52.3762&lng=-6.3826&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=GMT


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    #123
    Synode
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    Has it passed Ireland already


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    #124
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Won't see latest SL tonight unless you have a very good view of the horizon WSW - 16 degrees is as high as it gets.


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    #125
    ankaragucu
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭ankaragucu


    Have been checking the findstarlink.com website the last couple nights but saw nothing.They have an apology up now and say they are working on it.
    Does anyone know when is the next good pass/es visible from Ireland, specifically Dublin.
    Thanks


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    #126
    Harry Palmr
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    go to www.heavens-above.com


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    #127
    Synode
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    go to www.heavens-above.com

    What number starlink should we be looking for


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    #128
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Synode wrote: »
    What number starlink should we be looking for

    Click on the dropdown box that says "Launch" and select the latest launch (most recent date).


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    #129
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,869 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Tonights one was supposed to be extra bright according to the tracker:

    https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

    but I saw even less than the other night even with perfect conditions, not worth bothering with anymore I dont think, Ill stick with the ISS flyovers.


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    #130
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,165 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    GarIT wrote: »
    They are satellites being sent up to provide high speed broadband globally. These are the things making the national broadband plan irrelevant before they start work on it.

    Wrong.

    LEO sats still have the huge limitations of available spectrum. RF doesnt scale, optics scale infinitely.


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    #131
    ps200306
    Registered Users Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭ps200306


    Most of the trackers, including heavens-above, seem to be unreliable for the earlier launches. It seems to me that they are not allowing for the migration of the satellites along their track as they are still predicting trains which just don't happen. Starlink 6 is up on heavens-above now but it looks like there are no appearances for Dublin until early morning May 26th, and the first evening/night appearances are June 6th. Given that's six weeks away, will the sats still be bunched at that stage?


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    #132
    Synode
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    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    Click on the dropdown box that says "Launch" and select the latest launch (most recent date).

    There's no drop down box launch on android app


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    #133
    ps200306
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    Synode wrote: »
    There's no drop down box launch on android app
    I've found the app fairly rubbish. Check the website where its easier to see trains bunched together by time. But may be unreliable for launches other than Starlink 6 which has no visible appearances for the next few weeks. The previous launches seem to have spread out. That said, I'm seeing comments on youtube from people in the UK who have seen trains from the other launches in the last few days, so I'm confused.


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    #134
    SlowBlowin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Synode wrote: »
    There's no drop down box launch on android app

    You quoted www.heavens-above.com in your post, the app different.


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    #135
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    how about that asteroid will it be visible from irish skies?


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    #136
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    I saw 36 of them last night.


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    #137
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^ were they bright?


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    #138
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^ were they bright?

    They were passing Leo, and varying in brightness, roughly as bright as the stars they passed.

    Not bright like Venus or the ISS.


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    #139
    ps200306
    Registered Users Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭ps200306


    Sounds similar to the stragglers I saw last week -- passed through Leo near Regulus and Algieba (α and γ Leonis) and were about as bright as the latter, i.e. magnitude 2.


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    #140
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,641 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Some improvement regarding the light pollution.
    https://newatlas.com/space/spacex-sun-visor-darken-starlink-satellites/


    I'm not a Musk fanboy, but SpaceX do seem to be listening to the concerns of the astro physicists.
    Their turnaround time from concept to deployment is very impressive.


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