newbie help

[dtr42]

hi.

an old newbie [if you know what i mean] anyhoo been lucky in glasgow for the last few nights to have clear sky's ,however tonight decided to find polaris . so i found the great bear [looks like a pot to me:) ] and followed the line till i found polaris , but a saw an extra star crossing the path of dubhe and merak [obviously a satellite i hear you say ] but what satellite was it? [crossed at 7.10 till 7.15pm ] going north west is there a program for finding satellites [checked stelarium and no satellite was passing through those points at that time as far as i could see

[AWR]

Try Heavens Above for information about satellite passes.

Andrew

[Capricorn]

There are literally thousands of them up there.

Think that it is generally estimated to be 13,000 to 15,000.

Some are recorded, many are not.

[dtr42]

thanksfor the link AWR, looks like a meteor 1-13 rocket [whatever that is lol ]seems like it passed over me about that time