Satellites around the Earth

There are some satellites of Earth for us to view tonight, too. I took the following information from the Heavens Above satellite prediction site.

It will be too late for us to see at the Observatory, but if you are still awake at 10:50 PM tonight, you might catch a very bright "Iridium flare". Every now and then, one of the Iridium satellites (used for a global telephone system) rotates itself into just the right position for sunlight to reflect off its big, shiny antenna down to the ground. This will occur in the Rochester area tonight at 11:50:15 PM: look low in the northeast sky (10 degrees at azimuth 42 degrees) and you should see an object gradually appear, grow to outshine everything else in the area, then fade to darkness, all in about 20 seconds. You can find predictions of these "Iridium flares" on the Heavens Above web site, too.