Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos
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hey HN, i built this because I'm a satellite nerd who was bored this past weekend. type in any place and it finds every satellite that passed over it in the last 7 days (SGP4 on the CelesTrak catalog, tracking 17k+ objects and runs in your browser in about half a second), then pulls the real Sentinel-2 / Landsat / NASA images from those passes. fun fact: all ~17k objects in orbit are drawn on the GPU, solving Kepler's equation every frame. also cool is that Sentinel-2 timestamps are often 5-10…
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- a585gupt
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- Nov 9, 2026
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- watched.earth
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Trending history
Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 9, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 150 checks on 2 different days, across 3 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #7 of 30, reached on Nov 10, 11:24 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 10, 17:51 UTC.
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #7 | 2 | 79 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #1 | 2 | 48 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #1 | 2 | 23 |
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Nice site. Likely very few people will care this much, but with a couple of very easy changes you would make this feel a LOT less vibe coded. The giveaways: * Instrument Sans (your logo) * Highlighted period in your logo * Highlighted italicized text in your header text (also in Instrument Sans) * Short punchy…
Beautifully done, at so many levels: the pincushion view of just how much stuff is up there; the rendering of the orbit of each satellite; the ground track of its aperture; the time series of its passes. So many data sources seamlessly integrated. Even if Claude wrote every line of code, knowing what to ask for is…
I don't say this lightly: This may be the best combination of style and substance I have ever seen.
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Is Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 10, 17:51 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos reached?
#7 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 10, 11:24 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 9, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (150 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
295 points and 49 comments; submitted by a585gupt on Nov 9, 2026.