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Maurice Fitzmaurice

Starlink satellites to pass overhead in the coming minutes

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites will leave a trail across the night sky again on Tuesday evening.

And depending on cloud cover over the coming days, you should still be able to catch a glimpse of the wee bright specks as they orbit the earth.

The satellites were launched by Musk’s SpaceX company to provide remote locations across the world with low-cost internet.

On Monday night Northern Ireland photographer John O'Neill took a 30 minute time lapse video from close to his home next to Ballinderry Bridge at around 10pm to 10.25pm.

Here’s the See A Satellite Tonight site he used to track when the Starlink satellites would pass overhead.

The thousands of tiny satellites look like moving stars that are flying across the sky in a straight line - like a train.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral carrying 60 Starlink satellites on November 11, 2019 (Getty)

Seeing as the company has been granted to fly 12,000 satellites as part of the project - which could eventually be increased to 30,000 - it’s likely that they could become a relatively common sight in the skies above Ireland in the future.

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