Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects

Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data. A searchable catalog of all objects is also available, as well as a built-in chatbot designed to answer any space-related questions you might have.

This is my first published iOS app, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772174570

Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
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How do you calculate the next passes over a given position?

They dont ...Vibe coded...

Awesome. This is a side project I never got around to making myself. For all the questions of "How do you know where the satellites are", there are published TLEs (old punchcard format) that describe orbital parameters, and you can use those to estimate the position within ~10km (good enough for this).

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/

Human slop comment.

If the app does what it advertises, there is ZERO reason to care about how it was created. We aren't talking about a one shot prompt here. I'm sure they spent a lot of time working on it, regardless of how the code got generated.

I figure most people that comment this way actually have difficulty getting a coding agent actually on track and building something useful. Just because you lack that skill, doesn't mean others don't have it.

Regardless, a low effort comment by a human is worth a lot less than a comment from an AI with some thought behind it from a human.

I build from a lot of reference code I wrote myself. I've been coding for 40 (oh shit - I'm old and can't do math) years, so I have a LOT of code. The improvements to this code by the agents is staggering. That's my experience. Doesn't have to be yours.