Questions tagged [satellite-flare]

While sitting on the balcony of my home in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) this evening a bright flash high in the sky attracted my eye. After a few (~6? seconds) again a flare, now a bit higher and brighter, and then a third and a fourth time. I…

I came across this page this evening after witnessing around 15 what looked to be satellite flares in the same region of sky within about ten minutes. All of the objects flared multiple times with a frequency of around 3 to 5 seconds. Each would…

I was observing what I thought was a typical satellite flare. It was moving west to east so it was not an iridium. It flared a beautiful white, maybe -9 then as soon as it diminished it flared again but stop sign red in color, maybe -4, then…