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Still haven't been able to see any Starlinks - even though they have passed overhead quite a few times. I guess they are too dim for the ambient light in metro Atl.

Did have something pretty neat happen the other night though. Wife and I sometimes watch for satellites and the ISS while sitting in the hot tub. Saturday night I knew the schedule for the ISS, and we saw it rather easily cross over the back yard field. Fairly quickly, I realized there was another object in the sky just in front of the ISS - tracking in the exact same direction. I had an inkling what it might be - so came inside and did a search on the Dragon and the return trip. Come to find out I was correct. A few hrs earlier, the Dragon separated from the ISS and did 4 engine burns to drop away and in front of the ISS for the return trip. So not only did we see the ISS, but also the Dragon on it's first return trip!
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