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Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by club_tropical »

modeless wrote: post #31
ubj wrote: post #28

Those long, straight-line convoys of Starlink satellites are fascinating. There's a few of them I could see scattered around the Earth. At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits? Looking forward to using this website to try spotting satellites at night. There's something strangely thrilling about seeing objects in the night sky that were placed there by people.

For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Most of the satellites shown on the Leolabs site are too dim to see without a telescope because they don't reflect enough light. My site calculates brightness and filters down to the ones that you can see with the unaided eye. There are still quite a few! ISS in particular is very bright and can even be seen before sunset. The new…

Very cool.

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by spookyuser »

modeless wrote: post #31
ubj wrote: post #28

Those long, straight-line convoys of Starlink satellites are fascinating. There's a few of them I could see scattered around the Earth. At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits? Looking forward to using this website to try spotting satellites at night. There's something strangely thrilling about seeing objects in the night sky that were placed there by people.

For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Most of the satellites shown on the Leolabs site are too dim to see without a telescope because they don't reflect enough light. My site calculates brightness and filters down to the ones that you can see with the unaided eye. There are still quite a few! ISS in particular is very bright and can even be seen before sunset. The new…

I love you saw a train a while back because of your site

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by madacol »

prazgaitis wrote: post #111
modeless wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Most of the satellites shown on the Leolabs site are too dim to see without a telescope because they don't reflect enough light. My site calculates brightness and filters down to the ones that you can see with the unaided eye. There are still quite a few! ISS in particular is very bright and can even be seen before sunset. The new…

This site is really cool, and I love your blog post explaining how it works. Hats off, fantastic work!

post https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by rtkwe »

bagels wrote: post #75
ubj wrote: post #28

Those long, straight-line convoys of Starlink satellites are fascinating. There's a few of them I could see scattered around the Earth. At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits? Looking forward to using this website to try spotting satellites at night. There's something strangely thrilling about seeing objects in the night sky that were placed there by people.

They don't break up in to unrelated orbits. They simply spread out along the same orbit by varying the period for a few weeks.

They do raise their orbit to 540-560km from what looks like ~350km launch orbit.

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by 97s »

modeless wrote: post #31
ubj wrote: post #28

Those long, straight-line convoys of Starlink satellites are fascinating. There's a few of them I could see scattered around the Earth. At what point do they start breaking up into unrelated orbits? Looking forward to using this website to try spotting satellites at night. There's something strangely thrilling about seeing objects in the night sky that were placed there by people.

For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Most of the satellites shown on the Leolabs site are too dim to see without a telescope because they don't reflect enough light. My site calculates brightness and filters down to the ones that you can see with the unaided eye. There are still quite a few! ISS in particular is very bright and can even be seen before sunset. The new…

Hey just want to say thanks a ton for making this. My son and I went out side and laid on the patio watching the starlink sats pass by and it was neat. We never realized that they were there.

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by netrus »

jhugo wrote: post #161
milosmns wrote: post #105

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Is it related to Android though? I read somewhere/thought that it is primarily the Google Maps cars recording WiFi data and not phones). Europe wouldn't be covered at all if it was coming from the phones, right? (GDPR) I mean, you can have a street full of iPhones - which I assume is a regular occurrence in USA, where people trust Apple - and still Google Maps on iPhone would guess well enough where you are. For exam…

> Europe wouldn't be covered at all if it was coming from the phones, right? (GDPR) Which part of GDPR would prevent Google from collecting pairs of (Wi-Fi BSSID, approx lat/lon), with the consent that you gave when you set up your Android phone, and using it for their own purpose without giving it to any third party?

They give it to a third party - other chrome users. I was once in a train, and location services located me in a suburb hundreds of km away - clearly I was traveling with someone living there, using a portable/mobile hotspot. These kind of edge cases are hard to prevent (and rare), but still can lead to serious fines.

Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization

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Post by qubex »

jcims wrote: post #22

If the earth is 750 pixels wide in the default zoom, each pixel is 10mi/16km. Scale image of the ISS would be roughly 1/150th of a pixel.

I always try to explain it thusly: “up there” is “bigger” than “down here” because the radius is greater and there’s three-dimensional separation, and nobody “down here” is worried a few hundred thousand or even several hundred million busses might collide, so why worry about it “up there”?
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