Flaring Starlinks

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:48:10 +0200
Observed another very fine display of the Starlink-5 "fleet" during some 20
minutes between 20:01-20:20 UT. This time they attained magnitude +1.5.

The view has something SciFi to it: like the Alien fleet arrives in Earth
Orbit... ;-)

In my stacked image:

https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1252703659311456266?s=20

...it is well visible that the trails get fainter the more north they are
located in the sky (image looks due west).

Two satellites, Starlink-1274 and Starlink-1309, briefly flared close to Pollux,
to about mag 0. Individual images here:

https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1252707290571997184?s=20

- Marco


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