What is Reddit's opinion of Satellite AR?

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Satellite AR for Android phones is one app that can tell you where many different satellites are, and the International Space Station is if you're outside and only have your smartphone.

There are also numerous apps that can help with finding other satellites that pass over. My personal favorite is "Satellite AR", which uses your camera to show you where in the sky you should look.

The ISS can be perfectly seen with the naked eye, I've seen it even from my apartment in brightly-lit Valencia. But I use this page, just input you location in the right-top corner and look for bright passes. In the best times it looks like a very bright spot moving quite fast.

This augmented reality app is handy if you have trouble reading the sky chart, when it's time just click on the ISS button and move your phone accordingly.

Probably a planet. Could be Starlink, but I think you would see more than one. Might also be an aircraft landing light, headed for Brighton City Airport.

There are apps that show you where satellites, stars, planets, etc., are from your location. The AR-based ones don't require knowing about azimuth or anything.

It's harder to do in retrospect, but not impossible. You'll need to find a more precise lat/lon, though.

edit: this site will show you the sky from a specific place and time. Brighton should be close enough, so just set the time. At 20:00, the end of twilight, Venus would have been due West and 22 degrees above the horizon.

I like Satellite AR. When I spot a satellite, I can fire it up and see just what I'm watching fly by. Mostly rocket bodies (2nd and 3rd stages). I have seen the Chinese space station before. Identified with this app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality

The only app that I know of is Satellite AR, but it's slow, unstable, and does a terrible job.
Everything else I have found either just shows them on a map or can track an individual satellite, but not hundreds.

If you just want to view them on a map, satellitemap.space works great for that.

Not sure if it does notifications or not, but Satellite-AR can tell you where the ISS and other satellites are at any given moment. Does 2D and 3D representations too.

From the tutorial:

> Before we start the tutorial, you might want to use an augmented reality Android app like "Satellite-AR" to get a rough idea of where either GOES 16/17 or GK-2A (GEO-KOMPSAT-2A) is in your sky, and if receiving them is even feasible for your location.

Satellite-AR is no longer on the Google Play Store. Do you have an alternative option? I've tried quite a few and for all the ones I've tried, GOES 17 doesn't exist.

It looks like it should be in the NE part of the sky from Auckland and I may have a line of sight view in that direction, but I'd like to check before ordering parts.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality

Satellite AR by Analytical Graphics lets you see which satellites you're currently seeing and are to expect above you. (Also great for the initial coarse adjustment of satellite dishes.)

(Their humbly named "Systems Toolkit" for Windows is also worth a look, even for non-engineers. Even the free version lets you look at satellite trajectories in realtime and plan visibility scenarios. Or you could just buy a license and investigate the interplay of military and/or civil actors when you're planning on building a global communications network.)

There is also this ap for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality&hl=sv

I haven't had any success with it but that's sadly what I expect from living this far North.

Satellite AR - An augmented reality-esque app that shows you most of the satellites orbiting Earth. Points out ones that are visible in your area and also provides information for each one. Really fun app.

Star Chart - Another augmented reality app that allows you to identify stars and planets just by pointing your phone/tablet at what you're looking at. Has a night mode and is pretty good.

AGI (US Based AeroSpace software company) has been doing this for years and does it better, way better.

Here are all tracked satellites in 3D. http://apps.agi.com/SatelliteViewer/

Here is the Augmented Reality viewer for Android by AGI. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality&hl=en&referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dsatellite+ar&pcampaignid=APPU_1_wiT0VKvjDMG2uATjt4FQ

AGI is the real deal in the aerospace community.

I'd get rid of that 4 feet if at all possible. I have only an SMA-N adapter sitting between the LNA and the antenna (and a SMA-SMA coupler between the LNA and the SDR). I struggled with this project initially because the signal was very faint and impossible to find. Eliminating cable/adapter losses was my biggest key to success.

The two tutorials I mainly followed were this one and this one. I used the Noolec Filter, the Noolec TXCO rtl-sdr and a Raspberry Pi (with some PoE mods so I only had to run ethernet to it). The only big difference I had is that the L-Com antenna was sold out when I did this, so I ended up using a 1.7GHz antenna from a company called ZDA (after failing with my 2.4GHz antenna).

Not to knock GNURadio, it's very powerful in prototyping and experimenting, but I've never had much luck using GNURadio based tools (often too resource intensive and the decoders a bit too deaf). I had pretty good success using goesrecv and goesproc from goestools (from the linked tutorial).

For aiming, I used an Android app called Satellite AR. It lets you "see" where satellites are using augmented reality. That got me in the ball park. Then I followed Step 8 in the first linked tutorial, which essentially has you fine tune your aiming based on decode error rate (which I found easier than trying to use SDR# or any spectrum plots). Make adjustments slowly and do very small movements. A degree or two of misalignment can have a large effect on signal levels.

Satellite AR is pretty good, the best I tried so far.

Satellite AR has an ISS tracker button and will direct you to the correct angle to see it pass over.

Satellite AR has you covered.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality

Da gibts ne AR App fürs nächste mal:

z.b. : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agi.android.augmentedreality&hl=de