But because they're so high up in the sky, you can still see them. They travel nearly 500 km/300 miles EVERY MINUTE. The satellites move at an unbelievable speed. Why was the satellite very far away on the Live Map when it was supposed to be over me? Daylight-savings/summer/winter are already included, if required. The time is always local, you do NOT need to convert it.

The smaller the number, the brighter it is.ĭIM means the satellite might not be very visible. Common Questions - What's the number next to BRIGHT/DIM? Thanks for using this and enjoy gazing at the beautiful night sky! :)

If you found this site useful, please consider buying me a coffee to help keep the site free of advertisements. If there are any other questions or problems, you can email me at and I can try to help. Some common questions have been answered below. The NWS Radar page and NWS Satellite page also are available.Using this site, you can find out when the Starlink satellites are expected to be visible at your location. The URL should auto-update with the current settings, allowing for an easy bookmark/favorite. Īdditional URL parameters include lt (center latitude), ln (center longitude), zm (zoom level, 0-12), nolabel (removes flight category icon ID labels), hidemenu (hides the menu options on the lower left), wide (thicken US state boundaries), county (include US counties and other political boundaries based on zoom level), hidefir (hide FIR boundary), zseareas (add the ZSE ARTCC areas), and start (UTC start date/time, YYYYMMDDhhmm format, AWC data goes back up to 2 days, GLM data up to 5 hours). To expand the radar map, keeping the menus/options above and legend below, click ⟺ (include '&invert' in the URL to reverse the background/text colors). To toggle the lower-left menu visible/hidden, click the ≪ or ≫ button. Left-clicking on the 'Speed' area will slow the loop and right-clicking will accelerate the loop, ranging from 0.05 to 5 second interval. When both the flight category and weather are displayed, the flight category icon will be on the inside and the partially-transparent weather color on the outside.Ĭlicking on the map will start/stop the loop. Also, GeoColor images may occasionally miss a frame or two. On the GeoColor satellite images (GOES-West/East cutoff at -114°) the pale bule areas are nighttime areas of lower clouds. The radar, lightning, visible satellite, IR satellite, GeoColor satellite, SIGMETs/CWAs, and flight categories/weather can be toggled on/off. The above loop uses radar and visible/IR satellite data obtained from Aviation Weather Center (AWC), GeoColor satellite data from NOAA NESDIS-STAR, lightning (GLM) data from NOAA nowCOAST, and observations (for flight category and weather) from MesoWest.

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