My family and I were at Serene for about a week. We left for Pune via Kadve khind (Panshet) by 6:30 in the evening.
One ST bus was getting toed from the other side of the road by another near our lower farming plot due to some breakdown. As the road was narrow, we had to stop. So, we got a bit delayed. We were annoyed too as it was getting late. We even thought of turning back and going via Pabe ghat.
Luckily after sometime, the bus passed and we continued with our journey to Pune. We crossed the ghat. 7:15pm, it was quite dark, the road with a lot of potholes, so we were driving slowly and cautiously.
I was sitting back and I saw some mysterious white spotted line up in the sky. I thought maybe it's an electricity wire reflecting the light. But there was no one in front of us.
Curious, I started watching it more carefully. It was moving. I tried stopping our car. 'Dad, stop the car now! There is something mysterious up in the sky!' I thought it was some kind of firecracker but no!
When my mom too saw it, we both excited, started screaming. My dad had to stop. All four of us got down and seriously, there was this beautiful, gorgeous looking thing up in the sky going in the direction of Serene! Like a train of light floating in the sky in a fantasy movie!
And my dad excitedly said, 'woah! It is a starlink satellite!' I was going to call people at Serene so that even they can see, but unfortunately, we had no range at all.
When we came back home, Omkar searched about it and confirmed that it was Starlink satellite of SpaceX of Elon Musk.
On Thursday, October 27th at 6:14pm PT, SpaceX launched 53 starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This was the eighth launch and landing for Falcon 9 stage booster. This was the last batch of this year.
We couldn't capture it but how beautiful was the scene and how lucky we are that we four were able to witness it!
Funny part is, a man and his wife were just behind us on a bike. When we stopped, he happened to stop too, maybe he had a phone call to attend. So the guy was fidgeting with his phone and the lady was like 'Kunakade baghtyat akashamandi kay mhayti?' ('God knows what they are looking at in the sky?')
Sometimes, things are happening in front of us, it's just that we need to keep our eyes open!
Pic source: internet
