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 Tonight's Sky |
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Your Sky planets and constellations on Sun, 12-Oct-2025 11:15pm CDT
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Sunspot Activity
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Sunset: 6:48 PM Sunrise: 7:36 AM DIY Sunspot Viewer |
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57% illuminated - Waning Gibbous Moon Moonrise: 11:13 PM (12-Oct-2025) New Moon: Tue, 21-Oct-2025 7:26am CDT Full Moon: Mon, 06-Oct-2025 10:48pm CDT |
 Graph courtesy: Newquay Weather |
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Astronomy Fact
The sky is blue because when sunlight collides with our atmosphere, colors of the shortest wavelengths (violet and blue) are scattered - and our eyes are more sensitive to see blue.
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| Worse | Best | Worse | Ground |
Space Track-Satellite Passes
When using lookangles, choose passes with high magnitudes; less than 6.0. ("Looks" are local time.)
Best viewing is when ESV is in Earth's penumbra; on the map, it's the solid line during night.
Dotted line on map denotes ESV is dark, in Earth's umbra (shadow).
Objects in orbit have to maintain a speed of at least 17,500mph, therefore ESVs traverse the sky noticeably different than aircraft.
ESVs appearing to blink are either tumbling rocket bodies, or spinning payloads with deployed solar arrays.
High-Eccentricity objects have a more ellongated orbit. Ground trace looks like a backwards C.
Regression-Ground traces will move West with each orbit due to Earth's rotation.
Page template and Facts script courtesy of: TNET Weather on Weather-Watch.
Page Template and Moon script courtesy of: Saratoga Weather.
Graph base code courtesy of: jpGraph.
