This morning I saw those formation flying satilites..

[Worzsel]

Completly by chance! I was skiving in the garden at work at about 0630 looking for Saturn but being completly blinded by Venus when I looked up and saw a very close diamond formation of 4 satellites heading roughly N/S, fairly slowly. They were bright enough to be seen though the 'security' lighting we have. I bet they'd have been anawesome sight from somewhere dark!

I've read about them on here before but can't find the posts now and google's not turning up much.

Anyone got any info ?

[callisto]

I think they are the "cluster satellites" that measure the Earths magnetic fields

[Worzsel]

Brilliant, thanks! It was obviously just the a case of using the right terminology to google.

I feel quite lucky to spot them

[callisto]

I haven't spotted them yet, so you've got one on me

*Sorry forgot to add this* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_mission

[Leegsi]

Sounds like the 'Noss triplet'

[callisto]

Sounds like the 'Noss triplet'

Thats what I first thought, but there were four of them in a diamond formation

[Worzsel]

Well according to HA and calsky is wasn't the cluster although it everything have read about them sounds like exactly what I saw. There were definatly 4 satellites so not the triplet either.

I'm stumped!

[callisto]

Hmmmm

[Worzsel]

Looking at triplet photos it wasn't what I saw.

It was a really tight diamond formation.

[Worzsel]

Hmm indeed!

T'was a UFO!

[Lux1]

How odd, I saw Saturn at 6.45ish this morning, very dim against the morning sky and rings slightly more tilted than earlier in the year. I also thought I saw some funny lights towards Venus but thought it was my imagination, (had yet to have coffee!)

However Venus was a lovely large cresent this morning, and was visible in west Cornwall till mid morning when I no longer could make it out without a scope.

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i never heard of these groupings of satellites before (you never stop learning) but i remember being outside with my binos a long time ago, cant remember the time or what i was viewing even, but i remember three sats coming into the field of view of the 10X50s, couldnt see them with the naked eye, the trajectory was north fro the SSE to the NNW

[womblemaster]

maybe it was the CIA keeping tabs on you again?

[george7378]

I saw this during the Summer too - I came to the conclusion that it must have been the Clucter satellites.

[The Sailor]

Seen them myself Worzsel, maybe a couple of months ago, was doing a polar alignment on Polaris and looking through the finder they went past in formation N/S

Jim