Satellites equally spaced going overhead?

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SexyGreyFox said:
HELP

If I'm looking at Google Maps at 22.58pm I need to look West 261 deg, I'm failing miserably at where West 261 degrees will be.

So if 180 is South and West is 270 does it mean I just look to the left a bit?
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You have a 180 degree rotation to look at the sky, so surely the precise direction doesn't matter since you will see them either way when you look around the sky and your eyes have dark adjusted.
 
mrk said:
You have a 180 degree rotation to look at the sky, so surely the precise direction doesn't matter since you will see them either way when you look around the sky and your eyes have dark adjusted.
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That was 2 days ago, I've seen them 3 times now.
I explained that since the 80s I've setup motorised satellite systems and we talk in 1W and 19E which is face directly south, go one degree to the right and that is 1W, go 19 deg left and that is 19E and so on.
Saying 216W didn't make sense to me. IT DOES NOW.
 
moon man said:
I use the heavens above app ,loads of stuff on it iss of course and sky maps ,it will point you to the events




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Nice, I have £10 sitting in my Google Rewards wallet. Think I'll grab that.
 
Puzzled said:
Interesting, still only 358 operational at the minute and already noticeable so whats it going to look like with 12,000 of the things. Though I did read that they are looking at ways to make them less reflective.
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When they're first launched, they're at a lower orbit, once they get moved up to their final position, they won't be visible.

Great pass this evening, I just counted thirty four of them. I thought it might be a bit too light still but it was OK.
 
@Feek were they moving across from roughly west to north east? Unfortunately that portion of the sky is obscured by trees from where I am.
 
Jokester said:
Not a cloud in the sky tonight so going out for a late night walk.

They’re going W to SE tonight just after 10.30 here.
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Thanks, I've found a website with location based details. Apparently 22:34 ish W to E should do it from here (Details were for Liverpool but I'm not too far away in NW Wales). Apparently a chance at 22:04 too, possibly a different chain?

d_brennen said:
Yeah wasn't a chance of seeing anything over the skyglow. Going to see if 22:34 is any better but London skies :|
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You should be ok, they are brighter than stars (well, except the sun of course). Good luck!
 
Feek said:
When they're first launched, they're at a lower orbit, once they get moved up to their final position, they won't be visible.

Great pass this evening, I just counted thirty four of them. I thought it might be a bit too light still but it was OK.
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The way I understood it is that they’re sending tons more up because they’re keeping them in the initial orbit. The latency on the comms was too high so they needed to keep them in the lower orbit which narrowed the cone they can communicate in, hence the need for so many more. My info may well be outdated however, it’s from the vid I posted earlier in this thread.
 
Think I saw pretty much all of them just now, quite impressive and odd at the same time. Based in Chester - skies were still fairly light but they were easy to spot! Fit pit on now...
 
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