A dozen Satellites

[Frankskywatcher]

I really got a jolt tonight !
While aimlessly wandering around the heavens I sometimes fancy “ following “ a satellite if it’s not going super fast.
So tonight I start doing exactly that but while I’m tracking the one satellite low and behold a second one is behind it about half way in my FOV so I stop moving the scope and yet a third one appears and this goes on to the count of 12 for a total!
Now almost every time I observe I may see a couple maybe even five in a night total but not like that in succession like that !
My question is how many others on the Forum have seen something like that it was quite the parade !

[Bigzmey]

Could be Starlink satellites. I have not seeing one yet, but they tend to run in columns.

[Frankskywatcher]

Could be Starlink satellites. I have not seeing one yet, but they tend to run in columns.

That’s what I was thinking in fact last night with the naked eye I saw two and the local weather guy said that you would be able to see the star link satellite’s !
Seeing that tonight though was a real feast for the eyes my friend !

[Lady Fraktor]

Wait until you are deep in concentration and a airliner flies through you FOV...

[SparWeb]

How were you tracking the first satellite? Did it remain "stationary" when you stopped the mount tracking?
It sounds like you found the band of geostationary satellites. I stumble across it from time to time, and just like you say, it's strange to see another, and another, and so on.

OTOH, if you had the mount zipping around to keep the satellite in the FOV then yes, I'd guess first that it's a Starlink.

[Frankskywatcher]

Wait until you are deep in concentration and a airliner flies through you FOV...

OMG the first time that happened it freaked me out I was ready for a close encounter of the third kind my instant reaction was “ UFO” then logic took over and my brain said “ airplane “ !

[Frankskywatcher]

How were you tracking the first satellite? Did it remain "stationary" when you stopped the mount tracking?
It sounds like you found the band of geostationary satellites. I stumble across it from time to time, and just like you say, it's strange to see another, and another, and so on.

OTOH, if you had the mount zipping around to keep the satellite in the FOV then yes, I'd guess first that it's a Starlink.

Thanks for responding !
The first one came by and it was moving slow enough,I don’t have anything like a motorized tracking gear or anything like that.
I have a 10 inch dub and with just one hand on the tube I was just slowly moving it along with the satellite,tracking it as it was moving but like I said no sooner did I see the first one I saw a second one right behind it almost catching up to the first one with both in my field of view than the second one .
So then I just said to myself after the second one went by” don’t move the scope Frank” and I didn’t .
Then they just came in succession ,equally spaced between them one after another a dozen satellites first time I had seen something like that !

[Makuser]

Hello Frank. It was probably a train of Starlink satellites. While fun and interesting to see visually it can cause havoc to amateur and professional imagers. You can read more about this here, at:
https://www.space.com/astronomers-night ... tellations
Also you can watch the ISS flyby which is always fun. Just go here to sign up for the Nasa "spot the station" alerts. You just select your city (or the closest one to your location) and request either AM or PM or both to receive advance emails on the occurrence time in the sky at your location at:
https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/
I hope this adds more fun for your sky viewing adventures Frank and keep looking up.

[pakarinen]

I don't recall details, but the one and only Starlink train that I saw was at least a dozen in a row. Just one after another after another. My initial reaction was, "What the blart is that???"

[MistrBadgr]

Wait until you are deep in concentration and a airliner flies through you FOV...

I have had that happen....what a jolt!

[Frankskywatcher]

I don't recall details, but the one and only Starlink train that I saw was at least a dozen in a row. Just one after another after another. My initial reaction was, "What the blart is that???"

Thank you for responding,that’s definitely what I saw and that was exactly my reaction !