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Accurate TLEs from space-track.org and 3 Oct 2023 if you wanna use them.

this NUFORC report was recently highlighted on Reddit. The full text of the report is below, but the link includes four videos that look suspiciously like Starlink flares. Pilot was pretty adamant that this was not Starlink or satellites. https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=178702 Edit: Someone...

This diagram explains the mechanism of the flare phenomenon pretty well. It shows that the brightest flares will be at the center of the spectrally reflected ray - which will mean that they tend to be brighter when seen from aircraft. This is a version of the diagram that I did where I tried...

I'd thought this myself, but NOTAMs tend to alert pilots if things to be worried about, not about things to ignore. There's a risk that if you tell a pilot to ignore any weird lights that eventually one day the lights will be an actual plane that poses a genuine collision risk. I think the...

A nice example of a weirldy shaped ufo on Reddit, (looks a bit like a jellyfish) that turned out to be just a weirdly shaped balloon.... Zoom. Enhance. Identify. Which leads us back to this.... https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/car-sized-ufo-rotates-through-30027076

Yeah - highly likely that this was starlink once again. Unfortunately there's no video if the lights - however the event seems related to this post, which was also recorded on the 19th UTC time, but looking west after sunset. It includes a video of the lights , which is entirely consistent with...

which satellite orbital datasets are you using (TLEs, or two line elements) ? Stellarium will default to the latest and currently valid element sets - it will download them from celetrak. In-the-sky has an archive of TLEs so it will use the ones that were valid on the day you set it to. They...

What is interesting in the latest video and recording of pilots/ATC is the subtle change in language used to describe the Starlink flares..... MorningStar 7062: A few minutes later the ATC asks are they seeing any flashing lights So now the pilots are looking for flashing lights and...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ufos-listen-as-pilots-describe-bizarre-lights-and-triangle-formation-over-canadian-prairies-1.6748300 Pilots describe 'bizarre' lights and 'triangles' over Canada in air traffic control audio...

Oops. Well spotted. OOM is a golf competition that I participate in - the Order Of Merit! <facepalm emoji>

Can we have a new acronym to go with LIZ, OOM, TFA .... ? TMB = Trust Me, Bro. Definition: When the only evidence to a claim is the claim itself and the claimant provides an assurance of his own credibility to back it up.

That is for 19 Jan, the OP stated the was 29 Jan. Similar scenes in Sitrec although I'm not seeing many flares until around 3am https://www.metabunk.org/u/ndfNeV.html

Another good video from Reddit... Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1adp3ga/lights_seen_flying_at_35000_ft/?share_id=xAGiI_JgVj8xgfHMg7o46&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Wow - didn't see that bit in the video, can you link to a timecode? Or is it more 'trust me, bro' evidence?

I initially said that the MX-20 doesn't have an auto track system - the MX turrets I've used didn't - but there is an 'optional extra' that can be included in MX cameras called AVT , advanced video tracking, that does include a lock on tracking function.

Hmm, yeah you're right. But if we are assuming the video is at night then there'd be practically zero solar radiation, so everything would be cooling. To be clear - my post was referring to the black hot / white hot question, not the time of day.

Also the level of oil in these tanks shows up as black hot, The liquid will retain the heat longer than the vessel containing it.

You shouldn't see much difference in the flares for many 20 to 30 miles around a location (maybe even more).

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/19drzab/im_an_airline_pilot_and_i_saw_the_lights_on/ Sitrec for the time and date of the sighting: https://www.metabunk.org/u/lS5Mvh.html