Thread: Stars visible in daylight, or did I see flaring geostationary satellites?
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Old September 13th 06, 01:19 AM posted to sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Daniel Minge[_1_]
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Default Stars visible in daylight, or did I see flaring geostationary satellites?
On 11 Sep 2006 11:09:49 -0700, wrote:

Yesterday I saw what must have been two stars in broad daylight, or
else I saw two geostationary satellites flaring brightly. I'm betting
on the former, but it would sure be exciting if it were the latter!
Even seeing stars in daylight is pretty neat -- I have once before seen
in daylight what was later identified as Jupiter, but I did not know
that any stars were bright enough to share that honor, thus my
speculation that I was seeing flaring geostationary satellites.

Iridium satellites can sometimes be seen during daylight.

Apart from these, only the sun, moon and venus can be seen
during the day.

Minge.