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

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This is awesome, I work in Astronomy and what would be really cool is if you could get different space observatories on here with what they were observing, I know that's no small task but I could probably get you telemetry data for atleast a few :)

Definitely interested in adding more if you have any pointers for where to get interesting data!

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

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post #27

This is awesome, I work in Astronomy and what would be really cool is if you could get different space observatories on here with what they were observing, I know that's no small task but I could probably get you telemetry data for atleast a few :)

Not sure if you’ve heard of Privateer, which generates a viz. of all satellites functional or otherwise. It’s in a similar vein.

https://wayfinder.privateer.com/

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

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post #32

Wow. This is really beautiful? Can the code be customized to other spacecraft? I made a tracker for starlink satellites but think your visualization is much nicer. [1] https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/code-clinic-tracking-starlin...

Yes absolutely - I'm also using satellite.js so anything with a TLE available could be visualised. I'll have a think about how I could fit that in the UI.

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

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Can you think of a way to use your live cloud data as the background shader for https://github.com/sebosp/chartacritty ? I was also hoping to draw the iss progression through the earth, but sometimes people use terminals to actually read and may become confusing... For the rewind functionality you could look into rerun.io, not sure it's compatible with your current libraries but may be fun

There's a composite image with the clouds and earth at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk/images/8192x4096/earth.jpg that you might be able to use?

Awesome, maybe some negative effect over it, how often does it refresh?

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

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Same here

I don't suppose either of you have any content blockers installed in Safari? Someone on Reddit has mentioned that disabling content blockers fixed the globe not loading

I did have one but turning it off didn't change the behavior. It's not that the globe doesn't load it's that it starts loading for a split second (can actually see the globe), kinda fails, reloads, repeats the behavior, then loads the browser error page. I'm not sure if it's actually something you're doing wrong as much as maybe it tries to load too many resources and fails (iOS, and iOS Safari in particular, are sticklers about memory usage).

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

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

Safari runs out of memory with web maps.

Reported it several times but no fix from Apple.

Most powerful iPhone crashes but 5 year old Samsung with 2GB ram works fine…

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

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post #36

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There's a composite image with the clouds and earth at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk/images/8192x4096/earth.jpg that you might be able to use?

Awesome, maybe some negative effect over it, how often does it refresh?

The source data it uses refreshes every 3 hours but it runs more frequently because the timing of the refresh isn't guaranteed. If you configure your app to refresh every 30 minutes - 1 hour that's probably good enough.

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

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Fwiw, there's also a set of monthly Blue Marble Next Generation[1] (2004), similar to the single Blue Marble (2002) used by clouds.matteason.co.uk. Snow cover is quite visible[2] - perhaps undesirable for a "are there clouds there?" ISS application, but nicer for a "loosely approximate Earth appearance". I used it years ago for an Earth seasons interactive - perhaps there's some way to get actual snow cover these day…

I do actually use monthly snow/ice cover images in both projects! They're in the repo for the live clouds service [0]. I created them using the monthly images you linked combined with the Blue Marble "Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice" image [1] [0] https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps/tree/main/stati... [1] https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/57730/the-blue-marble-l...

Ah, nice. A quick thought: Perhaps have an option of seeing a projected track, perhaps with time ticks, for "oh, it's going to overfly mumble in mumble time - I should stay/try to come back then"?
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