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What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

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tornado17
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Re: What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

Post by tornado17 » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:11 pm

I saw nothing from Portsmouth although I am in a built up city, did anyone else have any luck?

podge
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Re: What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

Post by podge » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:20 pm

Nothing seen by me near Diss, Norfolk

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Re: What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

Post by mirage41 » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:31 pm

big john wrote:
Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:31 pm
Make the most of them, as the Sun newspaper is saying Starlink are going to turn the lights down! as they are causing panic among the populace. :D I presume they are arranging to turn the sun off? :O :roll:
Apparently Elon is planning to change the angle of dangle of the solar panels on some future builds to reduce earthward reflection.

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Re: What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

Post by Kurnass » Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:02 pm

Saw them from the Netherlands, for a few seconds. After that they disappeared behind the clouds. A quite interesting sight

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Re: What's with all tonight's military air traffic - all ideas welcome

Post by reaper493 » Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:25 pm

Starlink 6 should be visable travelling west to east fairly low in the southern sky just before 9pm.

Starlink 5 should be visable travelling west to east much higher as per earlier in the week about 9.10

Hopefully with the timing similar to the Rocket launch on Wednesday we might get a good show...

Mike

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