Lights in the sky?

[achin]

Last night I was walking my dog and I looked up and traveling west to east were a line of lights traveling fairly quickly across the sky. When I thought to count I got to 26 which was the last of the lights . I figured it had to do with the air force base but I'm just confirming that I'm not crazy.

[almighty_tuna]

You're not crazy. Those are Starlink satellites recently deployed in low earth orbit. They are less noticeable when they reach their final altitude/orbit, but they definitely stand out initially.

[skinzfan23]

I saw them about 2 weeks ago...I was so confused at first, but thankfully my wife knew what they were.

[Busguy2010]

That's kinda fun. There's a site dedicated to tracking the starlink train. I never knew it existed, so I'd be a little put back if I saw it and didn't know about it. Maybe we're fascinated by the possibility of there being "something out there".

I do believe there HAS to be extraterrestrial civilizations out there somewhere. There's no way we are 1 in 700,000,000,000,000,000,000. Do we have any form of contact? I doubt it. However, Ancient Aliens does bring up some believable points from time to time, and its based on artifacts, so this stuff did appear to happen in the past, we just cant explain it.

We might not have even been the only advanced civilization on earth.

Anyway I've always been fascinated by the possibility of other life. Like everything, all the good and bad that happens on earth is mathematically nearly impossible not to be happening on some planet somewhere that we'll never know of.

[Brad]

The1Wags and I were camping Friday night out in a really remote part of Wyoming and we saw them. I may have got a photo of them but I haven't looked at them yet. I had a 20 second long exposure so if I did get a photo, it will look more like a shooting star than seeing the individual satellites.

[almighty_tuna]

Can't wait to see more of you & The1Wags' photos from that trip!

[GenX]

That's kinda fun. There's a site dedicated to tracking the starlink train. I never knew it existed, so I'd be a little put back if I saw it and didn't know about it. Maybe we're fascinated by the possibility of there being "something out there".

I do believe there HAS to be extraterrestrial civilizations out there somewhere. There's no way we are 1 in 700,000,000,000,000,000,000. Do we have any form of contact? I doubt it. However, Ancient Aliens does bring up some believable points from time to time, and its based on artifacts, so this stuff did appear to happen in the past, we just cant explain it.

We might not have even been the only advanced civilization on earth.

Anyway I've always been fascinated by the possibility of other life. Like everything, all the good and bad that happens on earth is mathematically nearly impossible not to be happening on some planet somewhere that we'll never know of.

Check out Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix. It makes a pretty strong argument, especially with Gunung Padang, that there was an ancient advanced civilization about 25,000 years ago that all but disappeared about 13,000 years ago when the ice age "ended" and sea levels rose 400ft. Really interesting stuff.

[nebugeater]

The1Wags and I were camping Friday night out in a really remote part of Wyoming and we saw them. I may have got a photo of them but I haven't looked at them yet. I had a 20 second long exposure so if I did get a photo, it will look more like a shooting star than seeing the individual satellites.

Want to know a crazy fact? The low orbit rocket that you saw on Friday night was likely the rocket that launched at about 2:06 PM local time In FL from the Space Force site ( 10/6)

I was at the NASA Cape Canaveral site for the day and watched the launch take place.
It was an Atlas 5 rocket putting Amazon satellites into orbit.

Even from the distance we were at to see this, it was incredible to see, hear, and feel a launch in person. It was crazy I was able to witness the launch of the rocket that you saw gaining orbit altitude later that day. I watched it from right outside the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit building. GUessing about 2 miles away at most.

[Brad]

The1Wags and I were camping Friday night out in a really remote part of Wyoming and we saw them. I may have got a photo of them but I haven't looked at them yet. I had a 20 second long exposure so if I did get a photo, it will look more like a shooting star than seeing the individual satellites.

You could see the individual dots in person, but as I thought, the camera made it looks more like a shooting star.

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[thenewguy]

often times in the early hours of darkness, I'll see individual lights (not starlink, I've seen it before but only in the country because there's less light pollution) moving across the sky. They are not airplanes, either, they are just fast moving dots (not as fast as a shooting star) that seem to move in random directions. Am I seeing low orbit meteors, or are these just other satellites that are maybe picking up on the reflection from the sun?

[Louie]

often times in the early hours of darkness, I'll see individual lights (not starlink, I've seen it before but only in the country because there's less light pollution) moving across the sky. They are not airplanes, either, they are just fast moving dots (not as fast as a shooting star) that seem to move in random directions. Am I seeing low orbit meteors, or are these just other satellites that are maybe picking up on the reflection from the sun?

Those are satellites, some night sky apps even track them for you.

[Garrett]

often times in the early hours of darkness, I'll see individual lights (not starlink, I've seen it before but only in the country because there's less light pollution) moving across the sky. They are not airplanes, either, they are just fast moving dots (not as fast as a shooting star) that seem to move in random directions. Am I seeing low orbit meteors, or are these just other satellites that are maybe picking up on the reflection from the sun?

The ISS orbits every 90 minutes and is fairly visible. I imagine there are a decent amount of other large ones as well.

[Brad]

The ISS orbits every 90 minutes and is fairly visible. I imagine there are a decent amount of other large ones as well.

It circles the earth every 90 min, but isn't always visible to us.

Here is a website that lists times when you can see it from Omaha:
https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightin ... city=Omaha

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[BRoss]

I saw the string of Starlink satellites one evening last week. It was pretty crazy to see.