Questions tagged [satellite]
Questions regarding an object orbiting around another object due to the force of gravity.
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Satellite or something else?
I'm new to the site, and yes, I did read through other answers.
I'm an amateur photographer and look west from the deck often. Our view looks across the river to the mountains. I do use a tripod and ...
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Calculating the altitude of a satellite in polar orbit for a given distance between successive ground tracks
I'm working through Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students - Curtis (first edition). Problem 2.7 on page 101 is as follows:
It is desired to place a satellite in earth polar orbit such that ...
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Are these streaks in ZTF images caused by satellites or something else?
I am analyzing some ZTF cutouts and found several linear features that look like streaks, but I am not sure if they are truly satellite trails or other artifacts (e.g., blooming from bright stars, ...
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What do you think this is - photo taken last night
I took this photo last night using my Samsung on night mood - I didn't see this when I was taking pic, it only showed afterwards. It semlems to be colourful. You can also see either stars or something ...
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Calculating latitude and longitude from single GNSS constellation
I am trying to find a fast and reliable way to calculate latitude and longitude of an Android smartphone using a single GNSS constellation (For example BeiDou).
What I have done so far:
Collect raw ...
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Why do remote sensing satellites have payloads whose bands' resolutions are more than 1 m?
I was working on satellite data from LISS-III (23.5 m), IV (5.8 m), AWIS (54 m) and Sentinel-2 satellite bands (2, 3, 4 and 8). What caught my eye was the fact that their resolution is more than 1 m (...
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i just saw what i think would be a satellite flare, I'm not an expert so I'd like people to let me know
I'm located in Cerveteri 00052 (Rome) Italy, I was studying and something out the window caught my eye. It was about 30 minutes ago (17:50) and it was sunset but the sky was still bright. I was facing ...
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Recommendations on 3D software for recreating human vantage point of satellites, planets, and star positions from fixed time, altitude, and lat/long
I have a few videos of (seemingly) anomalous objects taken from the cockpit of a commercial airliner in the past few days. I know the copilot very well. This person is staunch skeptic on the topic ...
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Was what I saw a satellite flare?
It was a light slightly dimmer than venus but slightly brighter than Alpha Centauri that moved reasonably quickly, a bit faster than an average plane, passing through scorpius(though scorpius was not ...
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Fixing satellite eclipse equations from textbooks that are seemingly failing
I have tried implementing equations from two different textbooks in Python to find if a satellite is in eclipse, but both fail a significant percentage of the time when tested against data from ...
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Help me identify an object
Can someone please help me identify the object moving from 'left' to 'right' in the 'upper' part of this video? (please forgive me for the artifact in the center of the video, dealing with FITS files ...
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What effects you have to have in mind during LEO satellites observations?
I am attempting to calibrate my setup for conducting survey-like satellite observations similar. The idea is that I have a wide-field camera that takes images at 5FPS. The camera is equipped with a ...
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How can non-earth-orbiting satellite coordinates be obtained by amateurs?
Just a few hours ago the moon-bound spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 was launched.
While it will orbit Earth for a few days, it is accelerating/changing its orbit often to prepare for the transfer to a lunar ...
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Why don't we use the Voyager/Pioneer etc space probes to measure stellar parallax?
With Earth based telescopes you get a max distance of 2 au between measurements.
While we have multiple space probes well over 100 AU away from us, that's a 2 OoM difference.
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Is it possible to have satellites (natural or not) orbit the same celestial object in different directions ? (clockwise, counterclockwise)
Is it possible to have satellites (natural or not) orbit the same celestial object in different directions, or is the orbital direction dependent on the celestial object's spin?
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