Strange lights travelling north east.

[Guest]

A line of approx forty lights seen travelling north east in Hertfordshire. Could this be connected to Elon Musk? 

Did anyone else see this at 9.00 p. m. 

[Sunshine]

Indeed it is, Starlink nonsense.

[johnfosteruk]

It’s Elon’s Iridium enthusiast appeasement scheme. 

[Swoop1]

I was out earlier grabbing a bit of lunar and then wandered over to Orion. I sa a stream of satellites evenly spaced moving west to east through Orion. After that i did a bit of naked eye casting about and, a little south of the end of the Big Dipper handle I saw in one glance 6 satellites moving in 3 directions on 4 different tracks. 2 of the earlier train, one in the same direction but a little north, one heading soutgh to northe and one north to south. Madness.

[PhotoGav]

I went out to watch the ISS going overhead earlier this evening and saw the train of Muskallites streaming across the sky. It’s quite a sight, but totally horrendous. You can see when they are going to pass by on heavens-above.com. 

[AdeKing]

I caught these as I was waiting for the ISS pass at 20:42.

This is the first time I've actually seen and watched these and as you say @PhotoGav it was quite a sight, particularly when they crossed paths with the ISS, but after the initial "what's that" moment it quickly became tedious waiting for them all to pass.

I got bored of counting when I got to 30.

[michael8554]

Opposite for myself and wife, we went out to see the sky train and got the ISS thrown in for free! 

Michael 

[laser_jock99]

Why can't they paint them black.......

 

[michael8554]

Space X is changing their colour for each launch and gauging the visual result, I'd imagine there's heat retention/heat radiation issues to be considered.

They should Flock them in my opinion - had to careful with the spelling there.....   🙂

Michael

[MarkAR]

Wonder if everyone with a laser pointer put together a synchronised effort they might be able to blow one up.🧐

[Physopto]

I would like to see all of Elon Musk's satellites blow up.

No one has the right to make money out of others misfortune. It possibly, will end the joy of night time visual sights and imaging of the heavens.

[Hertford Stargazer]

OneWeb in trouble, so that might mean 574 less satellites. 

BBC News - Coronavirus: OneWeb blames pandemic for collapse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52070949

[jonathan]

It has to be aliens...  or just one, called Elon.

[Pete Presland]

I saw them, must have taken 20 minutes for them to pass.