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Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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Post by matteason »

This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale.

The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available.

I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle

I'd love for it to be used in education, so please do share it with any teachers you know who would find it useful

Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds
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Post by matteason »

alberduris wrote: post #2

Very good looking. It'd be amazing if it has some kind of "time travelling" option or an easy way to know the next time the ISS will pass over a certain location.

Thanks! Yeah rewinding would be good (especially if I can get the video to sync up) and next pass time would be great

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zamadatix wrote: post #4

For some reason this causes "A problem repeatedly occurred" on my iPhone 15. Reminding myself to try when I get home.

Sorry about that - unfortunately I can't reproduce it on an iPad Pro and I use Android but I'll see if I can borrow an iPhone to test on

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Post by urza »

Wow.

The video and map position appears to be a bit out of sync.

Was watching flyby over USA and when the map position exited land and went over ocean, it took about a minute for the video to transition from land to ocean.

Probably bc the nasa feed has delay?

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Post by matteason »

urza wrote: post #7

Wow. The video and map position appears to be a bit out of sync. Was watching flyby over USA and when the map position exited land and went over ocean, it took about a minute for the video to transition from land to ocean. Probably bc the nasa feed has delay?

Yeah there's definitely some latency in the video. I thought about adding an option to compensate for it (ie delay the position shown by some amount of seconds) but the delay is probably going to vary quite a bit over time so I don't think I can do that reliably
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