Tuesday, February 18, 2020

1st Starlink sightings

I just caught the end tail of a pass of Starlink satellites. I haven't really tried to see them, but it was clear tonight and we had a convenient pass of a constellation of them. They were all from the Nov 11th 2019 launch and were brighter than predicted (3.0)--looked like about Mag 2 to me--but I wasn't checking very hard. Something like 5 in a row--had I started watching earlier would have seen 12. The chain I saw started with Starlink-1051, then 1012, 1026, 1013, 1009, and finished with 1015.