Shooting stars or satellites?

We went on a stargazing evening - an "experience" we received as a gift. Unfortunately the sky wasn't very clear that night and we couldn't see all the stars we'd hoped to - but we did see the international space station go over!

On a clear night we are often out in the garden with the binoculars. I love anything to do with space. Shooting stars are very fast, satellites aren’t.
You can see the space station from earth.

Yes have seen space station before..but this a.m was amazing..at one point..for a nano second about 6 were in view at the same time like a moving string of pearls...

Aliens??😁. Seriously I would have loved to see that, farview. I was out in the garden earlier in the week, spotting constellations. The stars were so bright I felt as if I could have reached up and touched them. Even the Orion Nebula was vaguely visible with binoculars. DH and I often used to stand in the garden waiting for the space station to go over. Never failed to amaze.

It’s probably Elon Musk’s Spacex Starlink farview,
earthsky.org/space/spacex-starlink-satellites-explained/

jaxjacky think that is what I saw...thank you

One year I convinced the grandchildren it was Father Christmas!

Jaxjacky

It’s probably Elon Musk’s Spacex Starlink farview,
earthsky.org/space/spacex-starlink-satellites-explained/

That was amazing. Just how many satellites is Musk putting up there? Must be hundreds already.