Ask HN: Spot SpaceX Starlink Tail

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I can't wait to see the tail pass over the roof of my house (Italy). Does anyone already have a ready app? (input: coordinates - output: visibility date and time)

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From a reddit thread[0], there are preliminary TLE data here[1] and you can enter that into gpredict[2] to show when you might be able to see a pass.

Edit: I wasn't able to easily find newer TLEs from the NORAD database, and I don't know how off the preliminary TLEs from [1] might be.

Edit2: Updated TLEs are in a later email on satobs: [3].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/bslrii/will_s...

[1] http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2019/0193.html

[2] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

[3] http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2019/0207.html

brilliant! and thank you very much!

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