If you're going in search of a particular satellite, you have to know exactly where and when to look. And you won't have much time, since most bright satellites rise, cross the sky, and set in about ten minutes.

Most (the equatorials) rise in the west and set in the east, but a few (the polars) move north to south or south to north.

If you watch for two hours after sunset, about 15 satellites might cross the sky that are as bright or brighter than the dimmest stars in the handle of the Little Dipper.

The brightest of these satellites might rival Polaris, the North Star.