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For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ Most of the satellites shown on
by modeless 4y ago
For spotting satellites at night, try my site: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ 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 Chinese space station Tiangong is also a good one to try. In the next few weeks it's expected that the recently launched BlueWalker-3 will become quite bright too as it expands its enormous phased array antenna (64 square meters!). But the coolest is probably if you can catch a recently launched Starlink train, 50 satellites all visible simultaneously or within seconds of each other. (A few weeks after launch the Starlink satellites are no longer visible as they reach their operational orbits.)
- Kucher 4y agoI have used your site to successfully spot Starlink trains and the ISS several times. It's very well-designed and the included street view overlay especially helps with knowing where in the sky to look. Thank you!
- ubj 4y agoVery nice! Thanks for sharing this--looking forward to using your website!
- jlpom 4y agoYour website is very well designed, thanks
- flavmartins 4y agoFantastic site!
- rmorey 4y agoThis is really well done, I will try it out tonight!
- 101008 4y agoWow. I allowed Chrome to know my location for the first time and Street View was in my front door. I thought it was going to use the IP but it's impossible to be that accurate, does it Chrome use my Home on my profile location or something like that?
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- netrus 4y agoThe Street View cars log information about wifi access points, and use wifi data from your device to guess your location.
- CompuHacker 4y agoThat'd explain the changes to Location Services on Android over the past several years.
- milosmns 4y agoIs 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 example, I'm far away from the street and Google hasn't passed here recently, so my WiFi-based location is always way off (using Android). In my other home (and vacation home in another country) it's the opposite, because the cars have passed quite recently. The story checks out so far for me... but I am kinda lazy to search for the source on this right now, so pls share if you have it.
- jhugo 4y ago> 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?
- prazgaitis 4y agoThis site is really cool, and I love your blog post explaining how it works. Hats off, fantastic work!
- madacol 4y agopost https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight-works https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...
- jgtrosh 4y agoI can't tell if the times are for my timezone?
- modeless 4y agoTimes are displayed in the time zone your device's clock is set to. Unless you use the "Change Location" feature, in which case local time zone of the selected location will be used, with explicit time zone abbreviations shown.
- shallichange 4y agoThanks for your site! I used it with my kids during COVID lockdown to watch the ISS and other satellites. It’s great
- justshowpost 4y agoForced to keep eyes at the floor (for your own good, of course)
- rebelde 4y agoThis site is great and is one of my favorites. I occasionally check it and set an alarm on my phone. I will announce to the people that I am with "satellites passing in 3 minutes", run outside and impress people. Great fun. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
- dirtyid 4y agoThe nightmode streetview is very cool.
- dillondoyle 4y agoWow that's so big it's hard to visualize. Their website shows just how giant that is. Does this mean the US probably has satellites that can easily pick up cell signals anywhere in the world from space? https://ast-science.com/spacemobile-network/bluewalker-3/ https://ast-science.com/spacemobile-network/bluewalker-3/
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- eskaytwo 4y agoThat’s awesome. We have a few upcoming for the southern hemisphere. Excited to see them!
- kubi07 4y agoI just watched Tiangong space station with my bare eyes. Beautiful. Looking forward to watch 14 starlink satellites tomorrow. Thank you so much for your website.
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- club_tropical 4y agoVery cool.
- spookyuser 4y agoI love you saw a train a while back because of your site
- 97s 4y agoHey 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.