Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many satellites can you see in an evening?

I musta been out of the loop.

It’s not very often I lay out while evening turns into dark skies, and my reference point for living under dark skies is Africa 30 years ago,

Holy crap it sure seemed there were a bunch of satellites, one every few minutes, all moving at geostationary orbit speed. Had a flash from one which was pretty cool,

Far more than I recall from thirty years ago when there often weren’t much to do other than watch the sky.

A good many this evening seemed to be moving south to north. Looked at em through binocs, just points of light no aircraft navigation lights.

How many satellites can you see in an evening anymore?

I usually fall asleep before counting them all......sometimes I lose count and have to start over.

Dozens...

^^^This^^^

Some, at least, are identified as "Rocket" this or that by Skyguide; booster sections I suppose.

Skyguide is an amazing app. I've learned a bunch just by pointing it then poking the bright spots on the screen.

Hey teach....
You are seeing geosynchronous satellites zipping across the sky.
Not geostationary which appear to only hover.
Just letting ya know while you franctically Google fu to see if I'm wrong...

About a month ago I found a weather station.

The floater setup.



Mailed it back.
(science)

Ain’t it past your bedtime there Grampa?

Skyguide, I’ll look it up.

Did ya check out yet that you was 100% wrong in your terminology Teach?
Or ya trying to deflect.
Just admit you was wrong Teach
It is no biggie Teach.

You should just stick to nautical mile dead reckon estimations of distance traveled insted Teach.



Fugging with ya man.
Be careful on your bike trip birdwatcher.

you need to quit smokin dat shît

There are roughly 20000 satellites around the earth.

https://astrobob.areavoices.com/201...orbit-earth-in-real-time-simply-amazing/

Things sure were calm and peaceful here those couple of weeks Rene was gone, werent they, Birdy.

Depends on how much I have had to drink??

Wear NVG's.

You'll see more.

Which reminds me, how’d Gus make out with the probing?

Seemed cool with it.

Probably under the scope now.

?????
Huh???
I ain't been gone a couple of weeks, even though it would probably lower some peoples blood pressure on here.

If it’s geosynchronous orbit, you won’t see it move.


Definition:
"A geostationary orbit, often referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit[1] (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above Earth's equator and following the direction of Earth's rotation. An object in such an orbit appears motionless, at a fixed position in the sky, to ground observers”.