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Several hundred spacecraft now orbit around our planet. Many of those in low earth orbit (LEO) are bright enough to be seen by the naked eye as they streak across the night sky.
Some of the largest spacecraft, such as the shuttle and the Mir space station, have even been imaged by amateur telescopes with considerable detail.
Satellite watchers are those people who stay tunned on the sky above to watch satellites, and other human-made things.
The first and most essential step in observing spacecraft is obviously to know when and where to look. There are now many satellite tracking programs, both online and offline, that can give you the sky coordinates for a given object at a given time and location. Continua sa citesti »
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