Drunk Satellites
by slac-in-the-box from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6DDE8)
I sleep outside during Oregon's dry season, so I can stargaze myself to sleep, and during the periodic intervals where I wake up and look up.
There are way more satellites than there were when I stargazed as a child... it used to be we might see one or two a night... but now its difficult to at anytime look up and not see one... nevertheless, until last night, the satellites always travelled linearly. Even starlink's convoys of satellites still travelled linearly.
But last night, I saw multiple satellites zigzagging back and forth like drunk divers in their lane... or like skiiers of a slalom course; or like sine waves of shallow amplitude.
Has anyone else observed these phenomena? Any ideas?
There are way more satellites than there were when I stargazed as a child... it used to be we might see one or two a night... but now its difficult to at anytime look up and not see one... nevertheless, until last night, the satellites always travelled linearly. Even starlink's convoys of satellites still travelled linearly.
But last night, I saw multiple satellites zigzagging back and forth like drunk divers in their lane... or like skiiers of a slalom course; or like sine waves of shallow amplitude.
Has anyone else observed these phenomena? Any ideas?