For anyone who doesn’t want to stay up to watch them. 😉 DON’T click on the link if you want to see them live. It’s a video from last year so I assume it’s not a once in a lifetime viewing, unlike Halles Comet,
There is patchy high cloud at the moment, tonight may be better here as according to Bob's link they are coming from the north west. That sounds better, so many tall trees around, but a better chance from the front garden if they are higher.
I've been trying to get a reliable, definitive time for tonight's passes, and it looks like 9.13 to 9.30 might be the best time, as I mentioned earlier.
If you start watching the sky about halfway from the horizon to directly overhead, looking from SW to NW, just about 9.00 there should be a couple of non-Starlink satellites, one passing left to right, the other in the opposite direction.
The sky was very clear here and all the stars were very evident, as was Venus. However, with regards to spotting starlink it was a no go, despite being out in the front and then the back garden. I think I’ll stick to watching the video link I posted earlier. 😉
According to Bob's "this site" link, tonight they are coming well north of here at 9:48pm, west to east. It will be dark then and it's going to be clear. This could be the night!
9.23 tonight should be the time to watch here in Ipswich, UK, but you can change the location to suit wherever you live.
I identified the other satellites by using Stellarium (free download for Windows, Mac and Linux). I just set the time back to the start of the Starlink pass, and ran it forward at faster than normal speed, so the satellites moved quickly, and were easy to spot. Pausing the replay and clicking on the satellite images pops up the name, and a bit more detail.
Unfortunately, though Stellarium is excellent in just about every other way, for some reason it doesn't display the Starlink satellites.
No luck with Starlinks last night, due to cloud cover, and tonight it looks like it will be peeing down, so I probably won't see them again.
I have finally managed to work out how to get Stellarium to show Starlink satellites, and there's loads of them shown, with 42 of them expected at 9.58 tonight, but due to the weather they will have to manage without me today.
I'm sure they'll cope OK...
No ISS passes are currently due at civilised times, unless you want to stay up half the night..