April 21 and 22, 2020

Hello,

I'm very sorry Starlink wasn't very visible in the last 3 nights. About 20-25 satellites were expected to be seen, but only 1 or 2 of them were seen. In many places, people did not see any satellites at all. I know how annoying it is to wait outside and not see anything. :(

I'm still looking into the reason for this. I believe it's due to either not enough sunlight getting reflected (i.e. too long after sunset), or the owner of these satellites turning them around.

I checked other satellite tracking tools (including tools astronomers use, like Heavens Above), and they all had the same prediction as mine (i.e. same time and direction).

The prediction worked on Sun, April 19, with hundreds of successful sighting emails received from across UK and Europe. So it's not a timezone issue. The results have always been in your local timezone (including daylight savings).

Strangely enough, I'm still getting reports of successful sightings in other parts of the world. The site/app has served successful Starlink sightings since May 2019 to tens of thousands of users across the world, so I'm still investigating why only the last 3 nights have been failing over the UK.

Again, I apologize for the disappointing event, and hope to have better news soon.

Thanks, and regards
~cmdr2