> All 3 satellites were moving in another direction from each other, they
> must have crossed approximately the same point. (so not a NOSS trio or
> so which I observed often and which move in the same direction. These
> phenomena really give you the impression how much satellites are really
> out there, orbiting the Earth.
That must have been an impressive sight! It reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask here now that I'm back in the hobby. Some time ago I was in an extremely light polluted location with a set of AN/PVS7 3rd generation binocular night vision goggles to play with. The first thing I did of course, being a visual satellite observer, was look up at the night sky. To my amazement I saw three satellites simultaneously in the extremely wide field of view of the NVGs. Two eventually crossed orbits and the third was a very bright (through the NVGs) flasher with a flashing sequence that repeated every few seconds. At various points in their transit I took off the NVGs and could see absolutely nothing of the satellites or even most of the stars that were so easily visible through the NVGs.
Since 3rd generation NVGs are extremely expensive and the lower resolution 1st generation devices of the kind I've never used are reasonably priced, I'm wondering what results anyone here has had using 1st generation night vision devices for casual (i.e., not necessarily orbit determination) satellite obs.
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