Anyone else own Astronomical Binoculars?

I bought the Zhumell 80 x 100 back in the winter and use them a lot. Started out staring a great deal at Jupiter and it's 4 largest moons, The Pleides and the Orion Nebula. All those are to low on the horizon this time of year and I haven't pulled them out since April.

I pulled them out last night because it was a clear night with hundreds of stars visible to the naked eye. Looked to some bright stars(saw about 10 real brights ones with the naked eye in a small area) and literally couldn't believe the thousands of stars in that one field of view moving my head maybe 4" to the left and right. It was like specks of light layered upon layer upon layer. Mesmerized!

Now, what prompted me to write this was something I saw that I had never seen before. While I was staring at one spot, I saw what looked like a distant star(a speck....really) hauling arse in a straight line across my field of view. I knew immediately it wasn't an airliner at 30+ thousand feet as I can clearly see their strobe lights and even fuselage detail at that height. Finally realized I was watching a satellite. Trailed it for about 2 minutes. That prompted me to try it again and again. I ended up catching 6 in a 20 minute span by just starting back at the same cluster of stars, holding my Binocs completely still on the tripod and really focusing my eyes on noticing any of the thousands of points of light that appeared to be moving. Bear in mind, you really have to look intently because the satellites you can see are like the tiniest specks of light in the field of view. Like the thousands of specks you see behind the hundreds and hundreds of brighter points of light.

Those jokers are hauling arse! Did some research afterwards about the amount of satellites orbiting earth and came to the conclusion I was either seeing man made low earth (200-400 miles up) satellites or space junk. They travel about 17,000 mph and would explain the speed. I know they were not high altitude geosynchronous as those are stationary above the earth....meaning they orbit at the same speed that the earth spins.

I don't know why but I am amazed that I actually watched satellites in orbit from my backyard. Guess it is just the novelty of seeing something for the first time that you never considered being capable of seeing while standing on the Earth without a high powered telescope.