Arcturus-

Last night the conditions were finally good enough for me to see/photo the comet on my 7th or 8th attempt. I think It was just about visible to the naked eye with averted vision when I was able to block some of the moonlight, definitely good when seen through 10x50 binoculars though.

It has been confirmed on https://spaceweather.com/ that there are blue Starlinks:

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- https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=26&month=08&year=2024

On 24/05/2024 at 14:55, Bivanus said:

Well , I'll be ! Looky here folks:  UFO sightings over Brazil, Argentina and Chile leave experts baffled | Daily Mail Online

Does that seem similar ?

Similar In colour, yes but not much else. Certainly wasn't 'rod' like.

16 hours ago, Arcturus- said:

Looking on Stellarium (assuming it's accurate), NOAA 18 appears too low. Starlink-31695 or Starlink-31714, seem to match the positioning more, however Starlinks usually appear white. Plus Starlinks seem to get in the way of everything.

Based on the timings and path, I'm still wondering if it was Starlink-31714.

4 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

LBM? 

What's 'LBM?'

32 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

Could it be the Blue Walker satellite?  The array might look blue from certain angles. 

Stellarium has BlueWalker 3 as below the horizon at that time.

56 minutes ago, bosun21 said:

I also saw it the same night as you. It was a very bright blue. I put it down to be a drone of some sort as it changed direction as it neared the horizon. Whereabouts in the UK are you?

I'm in Leicestershire.

31 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

Apparently there are around 9900 satellites in orbit at the moment, so identification is getting trickier !

I know the sheer number and rate of increase is a bit concerning.

On 13/05/2024 at 16:05, dweller25 said:

Possibly NOAA 18

Looking on Stellarium (assuming it's accurate), NOAA 18 appears too low. Starlink-31695 or Starlink-31714, seem to match the positioning more, however Starlinks usually appear white. Plus Starlinks seem to get in the way of everything.

Below is a screenshot from  https://spaceweather.com/:

I saw what looked like a blue satellite going over the UK at around 23:18 -23:22 UTC (00:18-00:22 BST) tonight it went from west to east.

It did not seem to look like aircraft navigation lights, because it didn't look like it was flashing, and it was a lot more blue than green. It also moved a lot like a satellite, straight and arching path/trajectory.

Here's a photo I took at 23:20 UTC:

With a Nikon D7100 (DX (APS-C) format DSLR) with a 50mm lens with the settings being: 8 sec, f/2, ISO: 800, +5EV. I haven't edited the photo this is the off camera jpg.

Same settings clearly showing Lyra at 23:21 UTC:

I think I might have seen it on Friday night (into Saturday) when the aurora was visible.

I have seen slight hues on satellites before like Envisat looked slightly orange, but still I've never seen such a deep colour before. 

Trackers are indicating there might be auroras right now.

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/:

https://veryweather.co.uk/auroraTracker20.html:

So glad to finally see auroras:

Thanks for sharing @HnrKS.  Hopefully the intensity will pick up again, especially as hasn't only the first of the six CMEs reached earth so far...

I really do hope I see it tonight. I think the aurora is the astronomical related thing that I've tried to observe the most without actually seeing it yet. And there's been a few times which I seemingly missed it by minutes.