All I know about astronomy is that I'm a Capricorn, and apparently my ideal careers are: Accountant Lawyer Landlord Sisyphus Elementary school hall monitor https://www.costarastrology.com/zodiac-signs/capricorn-sign But I do know how to rotate a picture 45 degrees
Lol. Every forum I’m on, somebody posts about these things. Like others have said, it’s probably the Starlink satellites. Here’s another site to track them : https://findstarlink.com/ Some of what @B-Bob was talking about : https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/...lite-internet-constellation-astronomy-coating https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...ite-mega-constellations-loom/?sh=6b49b03f300d
I agree it was Starlink. I had just never seen it. I think the one or two that raised straight up and moved left is what really threw me off.
Dear god I hope not. I remember when I was a kid, visiting the ranch from Houston, and I saw my first satellite crossing the sky. "What's that thing?" I ask my granddad, who had no idea what I was looking at. "I don't know, it ain't coming at us, is it?"
Right before sunrise and after sunset satellites can be extremely bright and odd looking, but they are clearly satellites and will move in a steady fast march across the sky (usually east to west). Sounds like you saw Star Link which look like a train of lights (as posted) some of which may blink in an out if they are spinning. Now if they were scattered all over the sky and making weird turns then it might be something else like a drone swarm depending on your location, but that is unlikely.
Yeah got it. So this morning waking up at 5 , not knowing anything about it, and seeing this just had me spinning. Any simple logic at all was out of the window.
Deserves its own thread, or an existing @KingCheetah thread here’s an article in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02480-5 This harms the research that is done in these hours, such as searches for near-Earth asteroids. “Some phenomena will surely go undiscovered as a result of significant interference,” says a 25 August report from the American Astronomical Society and NOIRLab, an umbrella organization for several US observatories that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Bonus: A large Chinese rocket is about to make an uncontrolled reentry in the next few days and no one knows exactly where it will hit yet.
I've also read that these things aren't nearly the problem some are making them out to be, but there are strong opinions on both sides. I think right now it's more a fear of the future when multiple nations have massive swarms of little cube sats doing all sorts of things.
Imagine 50-100yrs from now, when we have a capability to do something effective against a doomsday asteroid, but we can’t see it soon enough.
My Polish ex got her masters back in Krakow at Jagiellonian University, so she took me on a tour of the place once when we were there (I highly, highly recommend Krakow, it's Prague without touristy crap). I got to sit in the chair Copernicus used when he lectured there (he was also a graduate). So, I don't just blast Copernicus around lightly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagiellonian_University
