Looking Up: Catch a passing satellite tonight

More Content Now One of the pleasures of star watching in the space age is the watching of manmade satellites as they cross the sky. If you gaze at the starry sky, it likely won't take long before you are notice a "star" moving past stars and through whole constellations. Here awesome pointers. Satellites are launched towards the east to benefit from the centrifugal force as the Earth also spins towards the east. That means while looking up you generally see satellites traveling west to east; you won't see them going the opposite way. Many satellites, however, are put in polar orbits, either north to south or the other way around; some may be traveling southwest to northeast, or northwest to southeast. More

(Source: Beauregard Daily News - Jan 1)