Sunday, December 12, 2010

colourful satellites

Satellites appear differently depending on their type, clearly.



Learned what the colours mean in the Stellarium 0.10.6 satellites plug-in, over at Matthew Gates's web page...
  • purple - Iridium
  • grey - naked-eye-visible objects
  • white - the ISS
  • green - scientific Earth observation
  • blue - NOAA weather
  • brown - amateur radio

1 comment:

SharminC said...

Ooo.. I love the screen shot! Nice touch to the post.