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Muddy,
If you can bare just staring at space with unaided eyes (no scope or binocs) for many hours you will see sattelites in all sorts of places during each night! They are a bit hard to spot after 11pm as the sun is moving behind Earth and they don't reflect as much. After midnight - forget it! About 2am you can start seeing them again as they reflect sunlight as the Sun reappears around the Earth again.
Sattelites seem to go in every direction, sometimes look like they will hit each other (probably hundreds of miles apart) some traverse half the sky and vanish (as they move out of the sunlight).
It can be quite an enjoyable night to occasionally leave the scope packed away and spend a night watching them, and meteors!
The Iridium Flares are certainly spectacular!!!!
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