Starship Asterisk*

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090318.html
no wonder i can't see low flying asteroids buzzing my house at night..

Is it just me or is the tracker nearly impossible to read? Even in places of moderate population it's very difficult to tell what the individual dots indicate. The dots are too large.

geckzilla wrote:Is it just me or is the tracker nearly impossible to read? Even in places of moderate population it's very difficult to tell what the individual dots indicate. The dots are too large.

People are invited to look at the map and see how many dots they can see.

(Shouldn't those green dots on the green map have been posted on March 17th?
Are the red & orange dots being saved for places that one cannot see the sun?)

ta152h0 wrote:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090318.html
no wonder i can't see low flying asteroids buzzing my house at night..

Too much Irish yesterday, I read your post as "low flying steroids."

neufer wrote:

geckzilla wrote:Is it just me or is the tracker nearly impossible to read? Even in places of moderate population it's very difficult to tell what the individual dots indicate. The dots are too large.

People are invited to look at the map and see how many dots they can see.

(Shouldn't those green dots on the green map have been posted on March 17th?
Are the red & orange dots being saved for places that one cannot see the sun?)

And do the green dots indicate environmentally friendly electricity?

When i am inspired to do so, I do allow myself some levity and humor. It is not steroids, it is just opportunity.

and by the way, where i live, Auburn, Washington, i have set up my camera and taken images of Orion and found anything more than ten seconds at 300mm, f5.6 saturates the CCD. Full moon at f22 for 1/200, f22 also saturates the CCD. And i know where the geostationary satelites reside for they show up as dots in the middle of star trails. Fom the APOD, I would pick central Africa for extended sky imagery.