It should be lagging around for a few more days, but on its way back toward the horizon I believe. A bino should make a pretty spectacular view by itself. 7x50 would be my first choice, 10x50 would work well too. My ST-80 was set at 20x and struggled to capture everything in the frame. Really pretty though. How big is your refractor?
On SpaceX sats, I have mixed feelings. Hopefully they succeed at making them more stealthy, but things happen. I've seen numerous sattelites wander into view, as well as jet planes. I was observing the Pleiades one night and the ISS came ripping right through the frame while I was sketching. In general though, it's hard to complain about that when for much of my country, at least, the sky is ruined by street lamps, parking lot lights, headlights, neon signs, etc. There was once a total blackout in a Southern California city once, and 911 received over a hundred calls about a luminous alien cloud hovering above the city. Those poor people had never seen the Milky Way!
It is rather sad though that the path to satellite communications, namely our obsession with the beautiful cosmos, has given birth to numerous technologies that destroy our view of the heavens, and rather ironic.
