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I was poler  aligning my telescope last night. My wife and I see distant objects my location is 40 North 31 West. Coming out of the Southern sky at approximately 8:53 we noticed a star but it was moving. Air travel from the south headed to the north we picked it up in between meisa in Alcor. Exactly 5 minutes later we seen another one. At first I thought it was a lucky shot if International Space Station not really familiar with visible from this longitude and latitude we're guessing. Until we saw the second one 5 minutes later same direction just trying to find out if anybody else seeing this could explain.

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Hi Steven, and welcome to SGL.

The ISS is regularly visible from your location but there were no passes on April 25th.

There are so many naked-eye-visible satellites up there that it would be unusual to look at the sky for say, 10 minutes without seeing at least one.

Have a look at this website;

https://www.heavens-above.com/

You can use it to predict passes for the ISS & hundreds of other satellites.

Clear skies!

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