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My partner and I made a really easy to use and accurate ISS/satellite tracker! ISS Tracker

It’s in early stages but it’s very convenient for us as it shows us the weather for each satellite pass. Right now it supports the International Space Station and we are adding more soon.

Give it a try and hey, you never know when it’ll come in handy. We’ve been able to see the ISS over 10 times in the past couple months here in Toronto and we are really looking forward to your opinions and advice!

Hi /r/satellitewatching On Saturday night on a Mountaintop in Western MD, I was stargazing for many hours. I am an avid stargazer and keep a keen eye on the skies, especially in summer. While I have noticed an uptick in satellites this summer over last, I am guessing this has a lot to do with Elon Musk and his satellite internet company.

After midnight, I saw something I have never in my life seen before. I saw a satellite that would cycle through phases of luminosity from super bright (brighter than any star) to completely dark. It would cycle rather slowly maybe every 10 seconds or so. I am certain it was a satellite or an object in orbit due to its slow path across the sky. I had been watching the skies for hours and had seen commercial air traffic at 35,000 ft frequently. This was definitely in orbit and not a plane. The light at its brightest was so bright it even resembled a spot light in the sky.

I was pretty floored to say the least. Does anyone have an idea what I saw? It would've been around 12:30 or 1am. I wish I would've taken a video!

Thanks in advance!

Unsure if these were satellites but we counted over 30 flying lights all in unison. I have never seen this! Any ideas?

So I don't know if what I saw were satellites. Around 5a.m. this morning I counted around 18 to 19 satellite looking lights moving in unison from the northwest heading southeast. I was thinking maybe it was a SpaceX starlink launch but I'm not finding any info on this. I tried to get video of it but it was too dark. I'd really love to hear what other people think.

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Hello everyone!I have built this (https://www.instructables.com/id/Receiv ... ellites-N/) antenna,with 75 ohm cable and dipoles at 60 degrees.I dont recive almost any signal at all(this morning i recived a tuny tiny bit of signal,only seen it,not even heard it.I tried in cubic sdr but there it isnt even showd up a micro bit).Another question: what sample rate should i use?I have a good computer. PLEASE HELP,IS A YEAR I TRY TO RECIVE NOAA IMAGES :x PS:i have used 75 ohm because i cant exit house for a month because here in italy ,cause coronavirus,we are at homes with police watching us...😔

A buddy of mine and I were just watching the sky during night as we saw 4 or 5 lights traveling in a straight line in the same direction at the same pace and in fairly equal distances. We wondered what that might be as it kept going on and on. There were at least about 30 of those things, all in a straight line. They weren't blinking so we figured they have to be satellites. Is that possible? Are there other plausible explinations? If that's of any importance, we are near Puerto Montt in Chile and it happened around 10:10pm.

I was up before first light Saturday morning hunting in West Texas when I noticed a series of evenly spaced satellites on the same orbit. I've never seen anything like that before and was curious as to what it was. After some googling, I'm wondering if what I saw was possibly part of a Mega Constellation project like Space X's the Starlink network? Does that seem reasonable?

I first saw a series of 4 evenly spaced satellites then after a short break a series of 6 more on the same orbit. The whole event took maybe 5 - 10 minutes. Satellites were flying roughly north to south and arched into the Western horizon. This was West Texas with no significant light pollution for maybe 100 miles.

Hi, just joined this sub due to something I saw watching for Orionid meteors Tuesday morning.

I saw UFOs that didn’t seem like any satellite I’ve ever seen before. These objects were fuzzy rather than the sharp pin-point light I’ve recognized before as a satellite. And five flew in a side-by-side formation.

What follows is my contemporaneous notes of the occurrence. Any suggestion on a man made explanation for this would be appreciated.

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I saw 6 UFOs this morning

I went out early this morning [Tuesday 10/22] to catch the Orionid meteor shower. I saw three or four shooting stars. One was especially beautiful with a wide track. I saw a couple of jets with flashing red lights and also an obvious satellite, a hard bright dot, tracked across West to East.

But the weirdos came within a minute of each other. First was a fuzzy white spec that traveled North to South, maybe a satellite but then it Instantly vanished. Less than a minute later a line of five fuzzy dots passed South to North. The dots were side-by-side; it was an East West line; and they were all traveling North at a right angle to the line. But they weren’t in an exactly straight line, some dots would speed up or slow down a bit so the line wiggled along as it passed across the sky. Then they all vanished at the same moment.

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I have a Meade Etx 90 and I have been trying to figure out how to track satellites with it. The problem is that the way you download satellite data to the telescope is by using an outdated plug which doesn’t fit into my computer. I have tried using an adapter so it goes to usb but the data doesn’t transfer. Has anyone else had this problem? All help is welcome.

Just for some quick background, I'm watching from Hernando county Florida, a little north of Tampa. I live in the suburbs so light pollution isn't terrible and it usually isn't an issue for me when I go watch satellites. I use heavensabove.com for my satellite predictions. Anyhow, into the meat of things:

I spent about an hour tonight out watching satellites, and racked up a pretty impressive amount of sightings, in my opinion. My first and brightest observation of the night was the Hubble telescope. As far as satellites go, I also spotted Cosmo-Skymed 1, Cosmos 2084, Yaogan 1, ALOS, Fengyun 3A, Iridium 2, and NOAA 12. Additionally, I saw 13 upper stages, mostly upper stages from Russian government launches, but also the delta 2 upper stage from the launch of the GPS-15 satellite.

I also had some neat sightings during the night including three satellites/upper stages/somethings which weren't listed on my visible passes page from Heavens above (one of which I later looked up as probably being the Cosmos 689 upper stage) and a shooting star. Additionally, it appeared to me that the NOAA 12 satellite was tumbling (looked like an iridium flare pass (satellite brightened to a peak, then dimmed to black) only it happened multiple times during the pass). Some research shows it was decommissioned years ago, so a tumble seems possible.

So 21 identified satellites/upper stages (22 if you include Cosmos 689) in an hour of satellite watching, not too shabby. I'll include the names and catalog numbers of all the objects I saw below in case anyone is interested: Hubble Space Telescope (20580), Cosmos 2098 Rocket (20775), Cosmos 2219 Rocket (22220), COSMO-SKYMED 1 (31598), Cosmos 2084 (20663), Cosmos 1805 Rocket (17192), Cosmos 1328 Rocket (12988), YAOGAN 1 (29092), Cosmos 1666 Rocket (15890), Cosmos 1633 Rocket (15593), ALOS (28931), Cosmos 1151 Rocket (11672), Cosmos 2228 Rocket (22287), Cosmos 1331 Rocket (13028), Delta 2 Rocket (20453), Meteosat 1 Rocket2 (10490), In-Cosmos 22 Rocket (12646), Cosmos 2237 Rocket (22566), FENGYUN 3A (32958), Iridium 2 (22,527), NOAA 12 (21263).

Hello all. I'm TampaRay and somewhat recently found this sub and was a little disappointed that it wasn't active, so I decided to try and do something about it. Seeing that there was no moderators (the previous moderator deleted their account, I took to /r/redditrequest and about a month later was given the reigns.

So here we are. In the coming week or two, I'm planning on giving the sub a little bit of a face lift, updating the sidebar, some new CSS, etc... Will also start contributing satellite watching stories and articles that watchers might find interesting, so I encourage you all do the same.

Furthermore, if there is anything you all would like to see in this subreddit, just let me know and we can see what we can do. Cheers.

Are there any satellites like Himawari-8 which captures the pacific every ten minutes but with Europe/Africa as the motive?

Heard about this new subreddit and thought you guys might appreciate this story from a few years (my friends don't find it as impressive as I do)

I had seen satellites before streaking through the sky, but nothing like this. I believe this was about 4 years ago on a summer evening. I was volunteering at a Relay for Life event and was taking a break. The sun had just went behind the hills. It was beginning to turn dark when something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. I looked and saw a huge bright light appear from nowhere. I thought it was a helicopter spotlight at first, but I couldn't hear a helicopter. The light disappeared quickly. I didn't even have time to show it to other people. I knew it had to be a satellite, so I took note of the time.

As soon as I returned home, I looked at the satellites that would have passed over the town at that time. I ended up seeing an Iridium flare. It's brightest point was right where the event was taking place.

I had actively searched for these really bright satellites for a few months, but something always happened to where I couldn't see it (cloudy weather or it would be behind a hill or some trees). Couldn't believe I had finally witnessed one. iirc, it was a little over -9. Its still the brightest I have seen (since then, I have seen a few -8's, but never anything above a -9). I can't believe how lucky I was!

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