I thought I saw it, then saw another brighter light as the first one was disappearing. Not sure which one was the one which just took off.Yay i saw it go over I was worried because it was quite light I could only see Venus and one star. But it was quite bright! Just looked like one bright star, not even a line. But that was cool, seeing it take off from the live stream then going over head
Think I even managed to impress the wife lol.
So essentially what you were looking at was the upper stage plus stack of just-deployed satellites (see SpaceX tweet above) all in very close proximity to each other (you don't see the first stage nor nose cone fairing segments from the ascent video - they returned to Earth well over the horizon out over the Atlantic).Oohhh.. Maybe there was more! There was lots of stuff detaching on the stream. Umm maybe 2hats will be able to explain it all.
Tomorrow night the satellites should be spaced out a little and individually resolvable, perhaps more like this:
This will be about 2055BST tonight (but start looking several minutes before). They should appear as a tightly bunched train maybe around 20-30 seconds long, rising in the west below Venus, climbing through Gemini to not quite overhead in the SSW, then heading to eclipse before setting in the SE.What time is that?
You might be surprised at how close that is to the US east coast - just over 200km off shore (first stage recovery zone for this launch was the larger shaded area on the right hand side here).Awesome can't wait
I think I was most impressed by the rocket landing back exactly on the X of the ship somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic!
All seems good - use the information above. But allow several minutes either side of the given times. In particular bear in mind it was written for SE UK, so the further you are west the earlier they will arrive (by a minute or two). The further you are north the lower in the sky they will appear (the track on the sky will be shifted closer to the horizon).Cough 2hats
Couldn't even see Venus until 8.53. So disappointed.
Friend in north London reports the same - nothing. Sky too bright.
It's wasn't too bright, but there was a thin layer of high altitude cloud.