[amsat-bb] HEO junk?

[Burns Fisher]

Aren't Starlink fairly low LEO birds?  How about Iridium?  They are a bit
higher, I think, and have some particular times when they are very visible
depending on the angle.  Interesting discussion.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:40 PM Bill Booth via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> On 2020-07-24 3:38 p.m., Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> > Not all comet watchers enjoy seeing man made
>
> Probably on of the Starlink sats, as there is a lot of them that can be
> seen very
> easily. More to come eventually as there is going to be 4000 of them in a
> few years.
>
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