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Originally Posted by AEAJR
Before I got into astronomy, about a year ago, I never noticed satellites going by overhead. 
Maybe it was that I did not know what to look for or did not understand what I was seeing.  More likely it is because I wasn't looking at the sky that much.
Now I notice. I was out last night and happen to be looking at a part of the sky and, there goes a satellite. 
On a number of occasions I have had them pass through the field of view of my binoculars or my telescopes. 
The other night I had two pass through my eyepiece FOV at the same time going in different directions. That was very cool and so unexpected. 
I even get e-mail notices of when the ISS will be going overhead.  As I get up to go outside to watch the little ISS dot traverse the sky my wife just smiles with that pitying smile that wives use on their husbands. 
Satellites! I didn't even know you could see them from the ground much less naked eye.  |
"I even get e-mail notices of when the ISS will be going overhead." Is that an app of some sort? sounds good, I'd like to be able to check the backyard when I know for certainty that the ISS will be passing over.