alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos
hey HN, i built this because i wanted to know what had actually photographed my street.
type in any place and it finds every satellite that passed over it in the last 7 days (SGP4 on the CelesTrak catalog, runs in your browser in about half a second), then pulls the real Sentinel-2 / Landsat / NASA images from those passes.
some fun bits: - the pass search can't skip a pass. checked it against a brute force on poles, the antimeridian and tiny swaths: 0 missed - all ~17k objects in orbit are drawn on the GPU, solving Kepler's equation every frame - Sentinel-2 timestamps are often 5-10 min off from when the sat actually crosses your spot, which was a fun one to figure out
it only says "watched" if a real image exists, and it doesn't store your location.
code: https://github.com/dev-Armaan/satellites
would love feedback, especially on what data sources to add
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Can you get high res images, or are they typically not made public?
Very cool tool
This is very cool, and a bit creepy too, but mostly cool
Really liked the UX, even on a small phone screen it was easy to use. I enjoyed the big typing cursor, it was a unique surprise (almost 100% of text form inputs have either a very small vertical line cursor, or nothing at all - the big cursor feels refreshing)
Very cool. Was this inspired by the latest season of cyberpunk? In case you and Capri need to escape onto a satellite. XD
This is great for planning backpacking trips. I have been using Copernicus but you have a lot more and it's much easier to access. Very nice!
I have seen a lot of sites with satellites’ overviews… I work in geospatial.
This site is really good one as you can see exact image taken by a satellite.
Well done.
That looks really nice. I especially like the view showing the satellite flying overhead and the line marking the scanned area.
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I don't say this lightly: This may be the best combination of style and substance I have ever seen.