Lights over the West of England

[LGS6753]

A neighbour (ex-USAF) has reported seeing a stream of lights, equally spaced, traversing the west of England west to east last night (Sunday 19th) from 2100 local until after 2200. He estimates seeing over 50, but there was no appreciable noise from them.
FR24 shows no activity of that kind. Any ideas?

[G-AZUK]

they were the Starlink Satellites, evenly spaced passing over for about 20 mins last night around 2130. Quite something to see

[A320baby]

They were satellites from the Spacex programme! Trying to make Internet available to the world

[Dct_Mopas]

A good viewing of them is possible tonight. 21:58 uk local time (2058z).

West to East for 6 minutes

[Airbubba]

A good viewing of them is possible tonight. 21:58 uk local time (2058z).

West to East for 6 minutes

Here's a link for viewing of the latest Starlink launch sats for Oxford UK. You can adjust the location for viewing opportunities in your specific location. If you click on the time for a specific satellite you get a star map of the pass.

https://www.heavens-above.com/StarlinkLaunchPasses.aspx?lat=51.752&lng=-1.2577&loc=Oxford&alt=0&tz=GMT

[Lantern10]

I'm sure I saw something similar a few weeks ago. Northern NSW. Again West to East. Groups of four, a few seconds apart.

[AJW709]

They were satellites from the Spacex programme! Trying to make Internet available to the world

While cluttering up the sky for everyone?

[White Knight]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1333/satellites_68e7a7370dafbf99bf63ced185fbfbf3eb04985a.jpg
On a NAT track 26th February this year Houston to Dubai and we were treated to a stream of these satellites at dawn. Pretty impressive and had 123.45 chattering away. This was around 30 West.....

[lesenterbang]

Saw it just before descending to YMML in late February. Didn't tell anyone at the time. Only realized what it was after watching some YouTube postings about it.

[fox niner]

Saw them yesterday evening as well overhead southern NL. Evenly spaced. Quite creepy if you dont know what they are.

[AviatorDave]

Saw them yesterday evening as well overhead southern NL. Evenly spaced. Quite creepy if you dont know what they are.

It's even more creepy of you know what they are. That those are meant for the benefit of mankind ... we'll see.

[kontrolor]

wait untill they reach the proposed numbers (over 20.000 by 2024). Elon Musk is an idiot with little regard to the nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

[fox niner]

Ok so how are 20000 satellites going to affect migratory birds, when their nav stars start to move?

[jimmievegas]

They were satellites from the Spacex programme! Trying to make Internet available to the worldRather, trying to spread Musks' ego all over the world, no matter what the risk to other satellites or degredation of our beautiful views of the night sky. there's far better ways to provide internet, this is nothing more than space just to satisfy the increasingly, let's say, eccentric Musk.

[Airbubba]

On a NAT track 26th February this year Houston to Dubai and we were treated to a stream of these satellites at dawn. Pretty impressive and had 123.45 chattering away. This was around 30 West.....

Looks like EK212 A6-EUH ex-IAH on February 26 local crossed 30 West at around 0700Z at 53N. A few minutes later a swarm of Starlink satellites from the February 17 launch was moving from right to left in your star scene. The minor constellations of Sagitta and Delphinus are visible in your picture, thanks for sharing it. :ok:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1098x951/30w_2__4d30e60ee983722abeaee2369d9296b4a7eb7c62.jpg

[NWSRG]

Elon Musk...is he not the perfect Bond villain?