Damn you, Elon.

[LWJ]

We had just finished an outdoor movie and the lights were dim at our annual family “Glamp out.” My daughter yells to look up and I see a line of lights shoot across the sky.

It looked to me exactly like the gun from the asteroids game back in the 1980s.

Research shows it was 53 new star link satellites. I’m sort of angry that Elon is putting a bunch of crap up there. Vent over.

[RNajarian]

Originally Posted by LWJ

We had just finished an outdoor movie and the lights were dim at our annual family “Glamp out.” My daughter yells to look up and I see a line of lights shoot across the sky.

It looked to me exactly like the gun from the asteroids game back in the 1980s.

Research shows it was 53 new star link satellites. I’m sort of angry that Elon is putting a bunch of crap up there. Vent over.

Vent on. . . just wait until those things start bumping to each other.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by RNajarian

Vent on. . . just wait until those things start bumping to each other.

As a backyard astronomer I'd love for such a scouring to occur, but I know it would devastate a lot of useful satellites and could endanger the ISS.

I expect that one day the space around Earth will come to resemble the surface of Trantor.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I expect that one day the space around Earth will come to resemble the surface of Trantor.

This is what it looks like now. Scroll closer with the mouse wheel then it wont look quite so busy. Mess with display controls e.g., put speed at 1000.

Would be cool to find Elon's satellites.

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualizations/leo

[masraum]

Per wikipedia

Starlink consists of over 3,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO)

The good news is that they are mostly visible (to the naked eye) right after sunset and right before sunrise. They reflect sunlight, and that's only around, especially for LEO objects for a short period right after/before it gets dark.

[devodave]

I was out Friday night, trying to catch a glimpse of the elusive Aurora Borrealis, when I noticed what appeared to be a very thin flat object, moving west to east in the lower northern sky, illuminated from the lights of Buffalo. At first I thought it might be a blimp, but using my handy monocular, that I had just gone back into the house to retrieve, noticed it was a string of lights. Second thought was someone was pulling a lighted banner behind a plane, similar to what I would see during the daytime along the beaches of VA and NC in my youth. Then I realized it was a Starlink Train! And it was gone, a fleeting glimpse in the night sky. This particular group had been put int orbit by the Falcon earlier in the day from Cape Canaveral. Ultimate goal is 12,000 Starlink satellites in orbit!

[SpyderMike]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Would be cool to find Elon's satellites

You can an idea here:

starlink.sx

Just put the target at your location and see how Starlink works.