LukeSkywatcher Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 About an hour ago, I arrived home from an Ed Sheeran concert in Dublin. When I got out of the car I saw 3 white light in the sky roughly traveling in a SE direction. They were spaced out from each other. As I watched, the central light kept going in a straight line, while the outer ones on either side veered of course (one to the left, one to the right). They didn't do 90 degree turns. They just slightly changed trajectory in a curve and went their separate ways. Definitely wasn't birds being lit up on their bellies. It was pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave scutt Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 5 hours ago, LukeSkywatcher said: About an hour ago, I arrived home from an Ed Sheeran concert in Dublin. When I got out of the car I saw 3 white light in the sky roughly traveling in a SE direction. They were spaced out from each other. As I watched, the central light kept going in a straight line, while the outer ones on either side veered of course (one to the left, one to the right). They didn't do 90 degree turns. They just slightly changed trajectory in a curve and went their separate ways. Definitely wasn't birds being lit up on their bellies. It was pretty cool. I saw it a while ago and caught it on my phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jjohnson3803 Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I've seen triple sets of sats (Chinese military, I think), but they traveled together without diverging. Maybe SpaceX fanning out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Fitz-Gerald Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 25/04/2022 at 02:27, LukeSkywatcher said: They just slightly changed trajectory in a curve and went their separate ways. .............................by how much did they diverge from the original course, and how widely separated were they to begin with and at the end of your observation? It has been mentioned here before, but when a satellite traverses a barren bit of sky without any bright background stars, it can appear to 'wobble' a bit as it travels, but this is just an optical illusion due to a lack of nearby reference points. Could this be a possible explanation or was the change in trajectory you observed more than could be explained by this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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