[emilioolivares]

For whoever built this app: I was checking HN in bed. I clicked your app and noticed the ISS would be passing overhead in less than a minute. My reaction was to immediately jump up, yell at my kids to run with me outside. We didn't know where to look, but then I figured out how to load the streetview and saw that it would be closer to the horizon and BOOM. We finally saw it zooming across the night sky, everybody started to cheer and yell. It was the most amazing thing we've done all week :).

[modeless]

I love your story, and all the others like it here! It's exactly what I was hoping for when making the site. I hope some kids are inspired to learn more about space after seeing satellites for themselves!

[pks016]

Same with me. ISS will cross me in few mins.(Edit: changed the exact minutes)

Edit:Saw it. I wanted to take a photo or video but the street light and overexposed the photo. How do I take a reasonably good photo of ISS?

[e12e]

I don't know about the iss specifically, but was stunned that taking a handheld photo with my huawei mate p20 pro - I could capture bright city lights, the aurora and a few bright stars shining through the aurora - in the same frame.

I'd be hard pressed to manage the same with my (old) dslr.

[ahakki]

Pics or it didn't happen. That's an impressive amount of dynamic range you are talking about.

[kn100]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/3foSpruUufJGtCBV7

These are a couple of pictures I took with my Huawei p30 a few months ago.

[e12e]

Yes. It's a combination of high iso with relatively low noise, and some enforced heavy handed post-processing in the camera app. And perhaps multiple exposures, I suspect. The pictures aren't "great" - but considering it's just "point and shoot" - I found it pretty impressive.

Let me see if I can't upload a couple of examples.

Ed: Any easy image hosting sites that work on mobile and allow selective whitelisting of exif data? I might want to strip time/GPS, but keep/present exposure information.. All without having to go via a desktop image program.

[scarejunba]

https://imgur.com/upload is the fastest to make it accessible but it doesn't allow selective whitelisting.

[e12e]

Ah oh well. The motives and information already on hn probably correlate well enough anyway, so:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=10SO7r98DwjkMRj7H2uhK...

I guess you'll have to download to see exif info.

Ed: i guess a photo sharing site that both values exif (exposure etc) and privacy (allow whitelisting) might be a nice side project..

[dnautics]

I've seen the ISS at -10 magnitude, at that brightness we could see it through thick clouds!! So probably part of it is waiting for it to be very bright.

[quickthrower2]

Hmm. That’s a lot of location info there.

[dev_dull]

Good feels. Family moments like these are one of the joys of having children.

[ngold]

Thankfully I was a couple hours early. Checked that spiffy app thing, set an alarm for 8:54, and watched it. It was moving a lot faster then I expected.

[codyb]

Hey we did that last night at my cousin’s wedding! Was really fun. I never realized how bright it was or how fast it moves. Really cool to see!

[Jagat]

Combining the timing info of this with the "Night Sky" AR app to actually pinpoint the satellite made it really easy!