South-Carolina
You may see strange lights in the skies over South Carolina tonight. Here’s why
A practice of recently-launched Starlink satellites can be brightly seen over South Carolina on Sunday night time.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The skies above South Carolina, together with Columbia, will play host to an uncommon customer on Sunday night time at round 8:50 p.m. However don’t be concerned.
In the event you see one thing a bit unusual within the type of a string of lights passing above, the reply is not alien – it is the web.
A practice of Starlink broadband satellites will cross over the Palmetto State and a number of other others as they make their journey to a secure orbit. Nonetheless, for now, they’re going to be fairly low – sufficient to face out noticeably from the sky round them.
As our sister stations, WTHR and WTOL, reported earlier within the week when the satellites flew over Ohio, Starlink makes use of a community of greater than 2,000 satellites orbiting Earth greater than 340 miles up.
The satellites have discovered appreciable use lately throughout humanitarian crises corresponding to the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine and pure disasters such because the latest eruption of an enormous volcano close to Tonga.
However whereas they don’t seem to be as noticeable after they attain their vacation spot, they’re inflicting some concern amongst ground-based astronomers. For Midlands residents, nevertheless, they’re going to be extra of an oddity on Sunday night time than a everlasting nuisance.
Wish to observe this batch of satellites and different Starlink launches? Go to FindStarlink.com.