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by stopnamingnuts 1783 days ago
I love watching these overhead in real time. For anyone not already familiar: https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/
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If you like this kind of thing, I recommend Stellarium. It's FOSS, runs locally, and has a gazillion features! You're also not limited to viewing from Earth :-)
That site is both beautiful and impressive, though for some reason it took over a minute for it to load in FF, almost instant in Chrome.
> though for some reason it took over a minute for it to load in FF

That's a hard you problem.

It loads in Firefox and is responsive in 1.13s on a system with an nVidia Quadro and 1.59s in a 4c/8gb VM with software rendering.

* changed ms to s (herp derp)

** It took 1.76s to load in Chrome and 2.83s in Edge on the Quadro for me.