One of the best videos on RUclips. •The content is extremely interesting •Scott's presentation is well paced •His gradually increasing info builds a momentum of interest •He uses this 3D technology to great effect •He sets a standard of excellence for all others to aspire to. THANKS SCOTT !
I have to agree.. this makes me happy to see how our technology has brought us forward.. myself a old dinosaur from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 pre y2k a digital dinosaur 🦕!
Would be nice to redo this with all the additionnal Starlinks that we have nowadays, and maybe even add a theoritical view of what it would look like with the estimated final counts of them
We'll soon find out, whether we like it or not. And that's fucked up. Nobody's doing anything about it. I like progress, but 50,000 man-made objects in space, for better internet service and communications when people don't even talk in the first place, is just fucking stupid.
@@charlesbonkley They dont pose much risk since their orbit is so low, if they fail they just fall back to Earth in a couple months and get completely disintegrated
In order to make such relatively tiny things visible, they appear much larger than they actually are. Space is a very big place, even LEO, which is a very limited area of space. It isn't as crowded as this makes it look. However, orbital crowding is indeed going to be a problem in the near future. There will need to be more and more "orbital traffic control" in the future, not just to make sure that new satellites get into very specific orbits that won't "crowd" its neighbors at that same altitude, but to calculate launch windows for rockets that are releasing more than one satellite, and those which are only lingering in LEO just long enough to boost their payload into a higher orbit (usually a very high one like GEO). Not to mention orbital debris mitigation strategies and tactics, tools and best-practices. So it's not as bad as this makes it look, right now ...but it will be in the future if we aren't careful.
It's starting to look like the satellite swarm/garbage you see in the movie....Wall-E. Not bad yet but We are not to far removed from a cascading impact failure.
This is the second one for me, I liked "A 360-Degree Tour of California Extreme with Steve Lin! " a lot because I like both Drew Scanlon and the topic a lot. Being able to control the camera etc made me feel like I was there in person by his side as he went through.
This was the best depiction of the sky I've ever seen. You put me in the middle of the desert with super eyes. The ability to freely look around is astounding. This isn't a gimmick. Its a breakthrough. Thanks Scott.
I didn’t realize this was in VR until towards the end and was mainly looking towards the ground because I’m just using my tablet. 😹 I watched it again and it’s incredible!
@@lewasil Haha! I know, I freaked out the first time I saw one of the VR videos. I don’t have any VR goggles and I’m sure it looks way better like that, but still interesting to move the phone around.
Not sure why but I laughed WA-A-A-AY too hard when I read your post! Maybe it's your simple yet highly effective writing style, but I instantly saw what you were describing and laughed so hard that I'm now in pain! And it is so worth it! Thanks!
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nicely done. it showed just how difficulty it is to see satellites at all unaided to the eye, unless they are moving. Though I believe this would have been so much better to listen to had it been narrated by R C Bray from Audiobooks, his character Mr Skippy from Craig Alanson's book.
What an amazing visualization and narration. I was overwhelmed with awe and wonder. Someone needs to give Scott a contract to narrate the next cosmos series 😊
@@namansingla2975 "Show, don't tell" is a saying that means something similar to another adage: "A picture is worth a thousand words". Showing a thing clearly using visual aids can save hours of explanation.
In the late 1980's I was working for the Omani Air Force stationed at Seeb International Airport. The tropic of Cancer runs directly above Seeb, of course during daylight or for that matter nighttime with all the airport lights you could not see the sky, never mind the satellites. But sometimes in the evening we would go to a beach nearby where the airport lights or city light never got in the way. There if you just lay on the beach and just focused on the sky it was not long before you seen the satellites pass over, 100's of them. Actually that was for all of us a real magic beach. In the evening apart from the satellites we had the company of sand crabs, again 100's of them. Then if we were very lucky sometimes we would also have a chain unbroken in both direction of luminous plankton as it became visible, sometimes extremely visible as it came ashore. Truly a magical place to experience.
This was an amazing video! I took my 7 year old son camping a few weeks ago in the Mountains near Mt Whitney. He got to see his first satellites. He was so excited. We saw three with out naked eyes. It’s amazing how many are actually up there.
I may be biased as a life long space nerd, but this is by far the best 360 video I’ve ever seen. It resonates with the same personal and mystifying experience of watching the stars while displaying some really nuanced structure in an interesting way. You gave a spacecraft engineer a fresh perspective. Thank you for making this, you should be proud of it.
just imagine multiple linearly organized crisscrossing bands of visible dots. like without this enhancement system even. probably see 3 to 4 full strands of them on a clear night if you're not in a city
@@josephneider7332 You'll still need the enhancement system. Without sunlight to illuminate them, they'll be utterly invisible most of the night. Only near dusk or dawn will they be illuminated while the surface is still in darkness.
This is awesome. What a huge amount of items in the sky.. Thanks for this and for those of you who see it grainy please up the resolution with the Gear at the bottom of the screen SO much better in 4k :) Thanks Scott this was awesome.
I dont really think so. Its probably a Thing U can find somewhere on the Internet. Just Upload it as a VR Video and the Video is done. But dont get me wrong, that was an amazing video
@@milchael the data is available on internet (google 'satellite tracker') but you, as a programmer have to map all this data programmatically onto a geoid, and then map the tendency of movement (coordinates change over time) and then you render your animated geoid as a 360 'sphere' - so yeah, not manually of course, but much more complicated than your sugestion ;)
I always wondered about this. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, this is one of the coolest displays I've ever seen. This should be a 360° museum exhibit. Smithsonian, give this guy a grant and make it happen
Its really amazing how many more there are now. I remember looking for satellites as a kid in the late 80s early 90s and I remember it being kind of rare to see one. Now, I go out and everywhere I look are satellites.
Ok... just get your phone as low as possible. Knees on floor, & Preferably, use a girls dress to block ambient light.. Enjoy !! ( you WILL be Arrested @ the next stop)
This video: Eerie Tone, dark low tone voice This video: Here is everything in the sky that can destroy a satellite or rocket in orbit. Scott Manley: "I'm Scott Manley. Fly Safe." Me: Did he just threaten me?
One of your most amazing piece of work Scott. Really stunning. I am sharing it to a contact working on space debris issue at CNES. Greetings from France !
:) Satcom engineer here with 40+ years of experience. We have some great tools for visualizing satellite orbits and thanks to Scott for giving regular folks a peek into our world.
When I used to have decent eyesight and camped out in the mountains it was amazing how many satellites you could see just after sunset. Just about anywhere you looked something would come into view. And I know exactly where this landscape is from.
Fantastic! And now I know why I'm confused sometimes trying to identify stars and seeing things that don't make sense to me. This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
there are apps that you can have on your phone that plot them for you in an poorman's AR video. tracked by your gps and phone direction. i plan for and watch the ISS with one from time to time.
The stones sail by using horizontal sails made of ice-rafts. A very interesting phenomena, which is almost impossible to deduce, if you do not see it in action. Ralph
Absolutely awesome. Could this be put into an app for your phone perhaps? All of the graphics I have seen to date are from the outside in; this is a whole new perspective from the inside out. I will never look up and see the night sky in quite the same way again. Nice job!
I was trying to adjust my phone in the right position on my table when I noticed the screen moving up and down and I thought, "Whoa!, he's having a tough time keeping the camera still!" Then I realized it's me! DOH!!! 😳
I knew there were a lot of them in orbit but this perspective makes it completely mesmerizing and understandable. I would LOVE to see this form be applied to a historical timescale, ie what the night-time sky looked like years ago vs today. For instance, what's the impact of Starlink been?
Dudes not basing anything on math or real physics, completely a fantasy render unfortunately. Probably some student studying for there degree trying to show an example of what he thinks is accurate. Can confirm this is total BS. Sorry to burst a bubble.
I used to have a job where I had to leaves for work about 5:00 to 5:30 in the morning. I remember always seeing a satellite moving from southwest to the northeast every morning just before the sun can up. Right at that times the sun would just be reflecting off that satellite just so you could clearly see it. Not sure what type of satellite it was. I assumed because it was going south to north it was a GPS, but not sure. I guess it could have been a weather satellite.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but could have been an earth imaging satellite in sun synchronous orbit. A sun-synchronous satellite would be trying to get uniform lighting on the earth. A constellation of these would likely be what you would see on the way to work.
It was probably Tiangong, the Chinese space station. It runs in that orbit and is visible with the naked eye. Is fast enough you will see it multiple times a night too.
Probably just the space station, it tends to pass over everywhere at a specific time in the day (though that slowly shifts throughout the day). It's one of the easiest objects to see in the night sky because it's about as bright as the planet Venus and is the 4th brightest object in the sky. Check to see when the next ISS pass is for you and catch it to see if it's similar, there's usually one every day though sometimes they can be in the daytime. I personally use heavens above to check this
Wow Scott, you've really outdone yourself with this video. This is amazing! Thank you for all the content you make, thank you for really taking the time to get people involved and interested in science and astronomy. You really are putting in your grain of sand sir.
I remember the first time when i was out camping, staring up at the stars, and saw one of them moving. First one, then two, then I started to see two and three at a time. It was a surreal experience! I hadn't even realized that you could see satellites in orbit!
Great simulation Scott. Recently I had my first view of a Starlink train in the predawn sky. Currently there are only about 3200 deployed Starlink satellites. As the entire project gets deployed, will we see a continuous web of satellites in the dusk and dawn skies? Any way you could replicate this video with the Starlink trains (as they currently are or as they may be in the coming years)?
Someone needs to have this up as a live feed all the time, with realtime data...... Or/also better yet, a augmented reality app! Ugh.....I knew I should have put more time into learning to code for android..... Quick, someone get on that idea, youll be a hundredair by the new year!
When I clicked on it, I had a feeling it was clickbait. But it wasn't, and it was genuinely interesting too. So really, good job. I can't imagine the effort it must've taken to do all of this.
Funny how many people are commenting in how crowded it looks - my reaction was the opposite, that for all the many objects up there, it's still so very empty...
@@joshuawilliams4695 and also that they're really far smaller than the dots of light suggest... to appear that big, I'm guessing a geosync satellite would have to be kilometres in scale, rather than a few metres tops
Great work, Scott. After looking at the space debris, and given the potential for harming working satellites, I suppose once near-Earth travel costs become more reasonable, an enterprising sort could start a space debris recovery/collection business, and do quite well! Recovered precious/semi-precious metals & materials, electronics, components, perhaps data recovery, and "general waste removal" fees!
@@jeffmartin3406 It costs $5,000 to get a banana to The Space Station, so capturing a dead satellite would always cost more than it's gold or platinum scrap value.
Ngl, at first I was thinking this was the worst camera work ever. Then I realized I was the cameraman. I’ve never seen this effect on RUclips before. Pretty fkn awesome!
One of the coolest posts that you have ever uploaded.
For an extra moment of cool, jump from 0:15 to 4:00.
Black hole.
Yes, very cool.
Superb - I’ve worked in the satellite industry for many many years and never seen such a neat visual! :-)
Agreed.
One of the best videos on RUclips.
•The content is extremely interesting
•Scott's presentation is well paced
•His gradually increasing info builds a momentum of interest
•He uses this 3D technology to great effect
•He sets a standard of excellence for all others to aspire to.
THANKS SCOTT !
And that brogue!
I have to agree.. this makes me happy to see how our technology has brought us forward.. myself a old dinosaur from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 pre y2k a digital dinosaur 🦕!
Agreed. This is a perfect niche application of the 360 feature.
@@663rainmaker You are a digital dinosaur. You aren't that outdated Sir.
Sure. It’s very interesting to present a hoax and most people still buy it.
Would be nice to redo this with all the additionnal Starlinks that we have nowadays, and maybe even add a theoritical view of what it would look like with the estimated final counts of them
That's easy, would just be solid white sky, lol :)
40 000 of them in 4 shells...
We'll soon find out, whether we like it or not. And that's fucked up. Nobody's doing anything about it. I like progress, but 50,000 man-made objects in space, for better internet service and communications when people don't even talk in the first place, is just fucking stupid.
@@charlesbonkley They dont pose much risk since their orbit is so low, if they fail they just fall back to Earth in a couple months and get completely disintegrated
I felt like I was in a planetarium but better
Because Scott freaking Manley was narrating
the Richard Attenborrough of the astronomical persuasion ;)
Can we just give Scott Manley the keys to a planetarium sometime.
And bring a scratch deck.
Pink Floyd in the background would have made it perfect
amazing - I almost didn't realize I could grab the video and move it around ...
@@allgrainbrewer10 Echoes
"Fly safe" has never sounded so ominous...
Hail Scott Manly.
The he said it! 😂
You got it 😏
Haha I thought the same thing.
Especially when Superman himself claimed that flying remains the safest way to travel.
I’ve only just found this video, and it’s brilliant. A real eye-opener. The overcrowding of LEO is incredible. Thank you Scott.
@@shinrapresident7010 ?
Is it actually over crowded? Videos like these can make things appear worse than they are.
In order to make such relatively tiny things visible, they appear much larger than they actually are. Space is a very big place, even LEO, which is a very limited area of space. It isn't as crowded as this makes it look.
However, orbital crowding is indeed going to be a problem in the near future. There will need to be more and more "orbital traffic control" in the future, not just to make sure that new satellites get into very specific orbits that won't "crowd" its neighbors at that same altitude, but to calculate launch windows for rockets that are releasing more than one satellite, and those which are only lingering in LEO just long enough to boost their payload into a higher orbit (usually a very high one like GEO).
Not to mention orbital debris mitigation strategies and tactics, tools and best-practices.
So it's not as bad as this makes it look, right now ...but it will be in the future if we aren't careful.
It's starting to look like the satellite swarm/garbage you see in the movie....Wall-E. Not bad yet but We are not to far removed from a cascading impact failure.
Overcrowding of GEO is more significant, as there's a very small amount of spots for GEO sats.
INCREDIBLE video, Scott. Literally the only 360 vid I've ever cared to interact with and view all the way through. Excellent work.
Right? This is what makes 360 great. Other channels like Verge gave it a bad taste using it in videos that had no use for 360.
I wasn't even aware RUclips supported 360 videos. This is certainly an excellent introduction to the format.
@@Vespuchian They've working OK for several years now, not very often utilized for some reason.
This is the second one for me, I liked "A 360-Degree Tour of California Extreme with Steve Lin!
" a lot because I like both Drew Scanlon and the topic a lot. Being able to control the camera etc made me feel like I was there in person by his side as he went through.
I think Scott has another one where he dragged us down into a black hole. If I'm wrong and I just dreamed it, gimme more of that moon cheese.
This was the best depiction of the sky I've ever seen. You put me in the middle of the desert with super eyes. The ability to freely look around is astounding. This isn't a gimmick. Its a breakthrough. Thanks Scott.
I didn’t realize this was in VR until towards the end and was mainly looking towards the ground because I’m just using my tablet. 😹 I watched it again and it’s incredible!
I've done that with RUclips 360º videos! _"Lame, it's just a blur… OHHH! D'OH!! (rewatch)"_ 🤪🤣
I had no idea this was even a thing. I moved my phone like at the end and realized it then. This is nuts!
@@lewasil Haha! I know, I freaked out the first time I saw one of the VR videos. I don’t have any VR goggles and I’m sure it looks way better like that, but still interesting to move the phone around.
Same here. I only noticed it because of your comment. It would have been good to say it in full, clear words on the title of the video.
Not sure why but I laughed WA-A-A-AY too hard when I read your post! Maybe it's your simple yet highly effective writing style, but I instantly saw what you were describing and laughed so hard that I'm now in pain! And it is so worth it! Thanks!
This is the first 3D video on here that actually should be 3D.
It's NOT 3D.
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When I looked down, I could not see my feet. Am I ok? Live prong and losper. 🖖
Love these videos man keep them up
One big word....WOW...Thanks Scott...!
Scott Manley thank you for making this I really enjoyed it.
nicely done. it showed just how difficulty it is to see satellites at all unaided to the eye, unless they are moving. Though I believe this would have been so much better to listen to had it been narrated by R C Bray from Audiobooks, his character Mr Skippy from Craig Alanson's book.
You should do a updated version of this. Would be awesome to see how many more are in the sky especially with Starlink launching more and more
That's one of the most brilliant things i've ever seen on RUclips.
This was absolutely excellent... i don’t know how you did it or how much effort it took, but whatever it was, it worth it.
Thank you very much.
Goes for me, too!
This is truely mind-blowing. So many moving things with extreme kinetic potential. Makes for a spectacular head-on! :-(
Apply directly to the forehead
What an amazing visualization and narration. I was overwhelmed with awe and wonder. Someone needs to give Scott a contract to narrate the next cosmos series 😊
i agree, he could be the new David Attenborough
Scott Manley,
Show, don't tell award 2019.
What's that suppose to mean?
@@namansingla2975 "Show, don't tell" is a saying that means something similar to another adage: "A picture is worth a thousand words". Showing a thing clearly using visual aids can save hours of explanation.
This was absolutely amazing. As I moved my screen, I can see so much more. It amazes me on how much debris are in our orbit, crazy!!
In the late 1980's I was working for the Omani Air Force stationed at Seeb International Airport. The tropic of Cancer runs directly above Seeb, of course during daylight or for that matter nighttime with all the airport lights you could not see the sky, never mind the satellites. But sometimes in the evening we would go to a beach nearby where the airport lights or city light never got in the way. There if you just lay on the beach and just focused on the sky it was not long before you seen the satellites pass over, 100's of them. Actually that was for all of us a real magic beach. In the evening apart from the satellites we had the company of sand crabs, again 100's of them. Then if we were very lucky sometimes we would also have a chain unbroken in both direction of luminous plankton as it became visible, sometimes extremely visible as it came ashore. Truly a magical place to experience.
It must hv been a wonderful visual experience
Thanks for sharing ❤️😀🙏🏼
when you realise that earth has a ring.
Yep
Klaus Gartenstiel ☆ Halo
@@user-mp3eq6ir5b you mean Hallo ;)
And you can actually see satellites composing the ring. They flare up to mag. 1 during equinox when they're opposite to the sun.
More like a net.
Would love to see an updated version of this video including a comparison!
Thanks for this amazing and insightful video!
This was an amazing video! I took my 7 year old son camping a few weeks ago in the Mountains near Mt Whitney. He got to see his first satellites. He was so excited. We saw three with out naked eyes.
It’s amazing how many are actually up there.
It took me two minutes to realise that I could move the phone to look at the whole sky.
Socks With Sandals somebody with a wojak pfp is below average intellect, how shocking and unexpected.
For two minutes, I was wondering why the hell he's filming the desert floor.
Me too XDDD
Thank you for that. He does say it at the start, but still watched the video from the side of the hill. Ha
🤣
Very cool video. Appreciate the detail that went into making it. The 360 part is a nice touch.
This is great. Good job Scott!
I may be biased as a life long space nerd, but this is by far the best 360 video I’ve ever seen. It resonates with the same personal and mystifying experience of watching the stars while displaying some really nuanced structure in an interesting way. You gave a spacecraft engineer a fresh perspective. Thank you for making this, you should be proud of it.
I've watched the space station go over a few times, it is too cool.
Excellent job, Scott. This is the first 360 video I've seen that actually makes good use of the format.
This is the coolest video you've had in a while. Keep up the amazing work.
This is truly amazing. Nice job!
You had me spinning around in my kitchen... My wife saw me and gave me a worried look.
Used a swivel chair with a tablet!
🤣
you can swaipe the screen with your finger.
@@vladimirvlad2563 but what fun is that? We’re trying to get the real feel of being there 🤣 just happen to look crazy doing so
Would love to see this with the proposed Starlink constellations shown.
just imagine multiple linearly organized crisscrossing bands of visible dots. like without this enhancement system even. probably see 3 to 4 full strands of them on a clear night if you're not in a city
@@josephneider7332 You'll still need the enhancement system. Without sunlight to illuminate them, they'll be utterly invisible most of the night. Only near dusk or dawn will they be illuminated while the surface is still in darkness.
This is both brilliant, and terrifying at the same time..
Fantastic work sir..
When “getting inside the data” really works. Very nice.
This is awesome. What a huge amount of items in the sky.. Thanks for this and for those of you who see it grainy please up the resolution with the Gear at the bottom of the screen SO much better in 4k :) Thanks Scott this was awesome.
This must have taken a lot of work, awesome job Scott, never stop pushing the boundary's like this!
I dont really think so. Its probably a Thing U can find somewhere on the Internet. Just Upload it as a VR Video and the Video is done. But dont get me wrong, that was an amazing video
@@milchael It still took a long time for the people who did it :P
@@milchael the data is available on internet (google 'satellite tracker') but you, as a programmer have to map all this data programmatically onto a geoid, and then map the tendency of movement (coordinates change over time) and then you render your animated geoid as a 360 'sphere' - so yeah, not manually of course, but much more complicated than your sugestion ;)
It was weeks of work writing custom code.
@@scottmanley Better do a "how it was made" video Scott!
I always wondered about this. THANK YOU FOR SHARING, this is one of the coolest displays I've ever seen. This should be a 360° museum exhibit. Smithsonian, give this guy a grant and make it happen
great use of the 360 feature scott. great video too.
One of the coolest creations I have seen on RUclips so far!
Probably one of the most mindblowing videos I've ever seen.
Absolutely awesome! Why did it take two years for RUclips to recommend this?
pretty trippy, awesome video
"Fly safe" felt vaguely like a threat when there's so much space debris visible!
Seeing this video i wonder how we’re not already trapped on this planet
Its really amazing how many more there are now. I remember looking for satellites as a kid in the late 80s early 90s and I remember it being kind of rare to see one. Now, I go out and everywhere I look are satellites.
Nothing better than sitting in the garden at night with a beer and satellite watching ....
Same. I remember in the 90s just before sunrise sitting on the porch with my dad and looking for satellites but now they’re everywhere
Mate, I'm on a train home. Everyone thinks I'm looking a them. I can't do this on a phone.
Use the touch screen.
You can swipe across the screen in fullscreen
Ok... just get your phone as low as possible. Knees on floor, & Preferably, use a girls dress to block ambient light.. Enjoy !! ( you WILL be Arrested @ the next stop)
Tap and swipe, my man. Should still work on RUclips, from what I remember.
SHOW THEM THE VIDEO
How does this have dislikes? This video is insanely original and amazing
Sort the comments section by new and you'll see a bunch of morons who think satellites are a myth made up by NASA.
probably flat earthers hahaha
@@viorel233 lmao, yea
Maybe he should not point his camera at the ground but at the sky. Show us the sattelites.
@@andyb6866 Uhm.. how do I say this... this is a 360° video, so you can do that yourself.
Amazing.... first interactive 3D video I have seen in 16 years on RUclips.
How is this 3D ?
This is such a cool visualization! This must have taken a lot of time to do but it was so worth it!
This video: Eerie Tone, dark low tone voice
This video: Here is everything in the sky that can destroy a satellite or rocket in orbit.
Scott Manley: "I'm Scott Manley. Fly Safe."
Me: Did he just threaten me?
KilledWithStyle ☆ Eh, you'll get over it. Super Awesome Visuals!
Are you an AI writing from orbit?
The Great Cornholio: Are you threatening me?!
This is like a sky watching app, within youtube. Love your passion to share knowledge!
"Whooa!! That is a big one" - I thought for a second. "And it doesn't move!" ...
It was of course the mouse pointer. Perhaps I should go to sleep. :-)
XD
Now THAT was funny! Creds!
This blew my mind. I have never seen this on youtube.
Probably the best
“My god! It’s full of stars!”
2001 has come and gone. Just like 1984.
@@leehaelters6182 and Nov 2019
This has got to be one of the best videos you have ever done Scott, and if I still taught I would love to show my students this. Thank you!
This is the absolute best thing I've seen on RUclips
This is amazing Scott!! I would love to see this in a planetarium in all its splendor.
One of your most amazing piece of work Scott. Really stunning. I am sharing it to a contact working on space debris issue at CNES. Greetings from France !
:) Satcom engineer here with 40+ years of experience. We have some great tools for visualizing satellite orbits and thanks to Scott for giving regular folks a peek into our world.
One of the best video of 2019 ...😱😱😱😱
*_"Geostationary satelites WOBBLE, but they DON'T fall down."_*
😊😊😊😊
They are constantly falling, they just keep missing the ground.
RocKiteman You, sir, have won the Nostalgic Comment Award. 🏆
Btw, I used to love Weebles!
Cause they’re attached to 80 foot balloons
Shane, your brain is a balloon.
Just had this recommended. What a perfect use for 360º video. Many thanks.
When I used to have decent eyesight and camped out in the mountains it was amazing how many satellites you could see just after sunset. Just about anywhere you looked something would come into view. And I know exactly where this landscape is from.
Where?
@@jupiter-qu3zl Race track in Death Valley. Somewhat difficult to get to.
The coolest thing I’ve seen on RUclips
You got that right..
The best "satellites in night" topic video I've seen in my entire life!
This is the first video in a long time where I stopped everything else to just watch it.
Very cool!
I also
Six times....
Fantastic! And now I know why I'm confused sometimes trying to identify stars and seeing things that don't make sense to me. This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
This is how many videos like this we need
👇
Sensational Scott, never seen anything like this before. Cheers
there are apps that you can have on your phone that plot them for you in an poorman's AR video. tracked by your gps and phone direction. i plan for and watch the ISS with one from time to time.
First time I saw the ISS I was in awe ..
Like how you put us on the ground with the sailing stones, cool touch
The stones sail by using horizontal sails made of ice-rafts.
A very interesting phenomena, which is almost impossible to deduce, if you do not see it in action.
Ralph
Looks like the wandering stones in Death Valley.
Absolutely awesome. Could this be put into an app for your phone perhaps? All of the graphics I have seen to date are from the outside in; this is a whole new perspective from the inside out. I will never look up and see the night sky in quite the same way again. Nice job!
Love it. You could make this a once-a-year thing, it would be interesting to see it change.
Ah, I just wrote that also 😊
Really cool idea!
I was sitting here looking at the mountain like why isn't he moving the camera??
I was trying to adjust my phone in the right position on my table when I noticed the screen moving up and down and I thought, "Whoa!, he's having a tough time keeping the camera still!" Then I realized it's me! DOH!!! 😳
Absolutely amazing
I knew there were a lot of them in orbit but this perspective makes it completely mesmerizing and understandable. I would LOVE to see this form be applied to a historical timescale, ie what the night-time sky looked like years ago vs today. For instance, what's the impact of Starlink been?
Dudes not basing anything on math or real physics, completely a fantasy render unfortunately. Probably some student studying for there degree trying to show an example of what he thinks is accurate. Can confirm this is total BS. Sorry to burst a bubble.
@@Boofedit your take here is just as childish as your spelling
@@Boofedit Go somewhere else to be cocky and let us experience our "fantasy render" without your needless comment.
@@Boofedit and you're an expert?
‘My God, it used to be full of stars!’
Almost two years after it was uploaded and this is one of the best RUclips videos I've seen.
This is one of the most interesting things I have ever seen. Thank you!
I used to have a job where I had to leaves for work about 5:00 to 5:30 in the morning. I remember always seeing a satellite moving from southwest to the northeast every morning just before the sun can up. Right at that times the sun would just be reflecting off that satellite just so you could clearly see it. Not sure what type of satellite it was. I assumed because it was going south to north it was a GPS, but not sure. I guess it could have been a weather satellite.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but could have been an earth imaging satellite in sun synchronous orbit. A sun-synchronous satellite would be trying to get uniform lighting on the earth. A constellation of these would likely be what you would see on the way to work.
It was probably Tiangong, the Chinese space station. It runs in that orbit and is visible with the naked eye. Is fast enough you will see it multiple times a night too.
odds are it was iridium, they tend to flash
Probably just the space station, it tends to pass over everywhere at a specific time in the day (though that slowly shifts throughout the day). It's one of the easiest objects to see in the night sky because it's about as bright as the planet Venus and is the 4th brightest object in the sky. Check to see when the next ISS pass is for you and catch it to see if it's similar, there's usually one every day though sometimes they can be in the daytime. I personally use heavens above to check this
I've no idea how I found this video but so glad I did. This was fascinating and humbling! Thank you, Scott!
Wow Scott, you've really outdone yourself with this video. This is amazing! Thank you for all the content you make, thank you for really taking the time to get people involved and interested in science and astronomy. You really are putting in your grain of sand sir.
Aliens probably don't come around because of our junky force field
That and the fact that scarcely anyone knows how to use pronouns correctly.
Justin DeLoach it’s basically just like wall E
P Fulton
“Pronouns suck” ~Elon Musk~
I remember the first time when i was out camping, staring up at the stars, and saw one of them moving. First one, then two, then I started to see two and three at a time. It was a surreal experience! I hadn't even realized that you could see satellites in orbit!
I tell people hey look, a satellite! They think I'm nuts. Even in the 70's my Dad showed them to us I guess all aren't as aware
Great simulation Scott. Recently I had my first view of a Starlink train in the predawn sky. Currently there are only about 3200 deployed Starlink satellites. As the entire project gets deployed, will we see a continuous web of satellites in the dusk and dawn skies? Any way you could replicate this video with the Starlink trains (as they currently are or as they may be in the coming years)?
When you see a skytrain, the launch is recent. In the coming days and weeks they become increasingly dim and spread out, we wont see them
I sense a disturbance, as if all flat earthers cried out at once and then... silence.
Fantastic video
laserfloyd look again
laserfloyd didn’t he say geo-stationary
You raised the bar, Scott. I didn’t realize RUclips supported a canvas view.
Someone needs to have this up as a live feed all the time, with realtime data...... Or/also better yet, a augmented reality app! Ugh.....I knew I should have put more time into learning to code for android..... Quick, someone get on that idea, youll be a hundredair by the new year!
i wanna be a hundredaire too
Would love to see this with all of Starlink's new satellites!
When I clicked on it, I had a feeling it was clickbait. But it wasn't, and it was genuinely interesting too. So really, good job. I can't imagine the effort it must've taken to do all of this.
Funny how many people are commenting in how crowded it looks - my reaction was the opposite, that for all the many objects up there, it's still so very empty...
It's all about that sense of scale, innit. =D
Add color coding to indicate elevation?
Simon Geard ya it is actually far from crowded when you consider the vertical space (they are orbiting at various altitudes)
@@joshuawilliams4695 and also that they're really far smaller than the dots of light suggest... to appear that big, I'm guessing a geosync satellite would have to be kilometres in scale, rather than a few metres tops
Great work, Scott.
After looking at the space debris, and given the potential for harming working satellites, I suppose once near-Earth travel costs become more reasonable, an enterprising sort could start a space debris recovery/collection business, and do quite well! Recovered precious/semi-precious metals & materials, electronics, components, perhaps data recovery, and "general waste removal" fees!
Imagine THAT commute to work!
It would be like, trying to catch bullets, possible but.......
@@jeffmartin3406 It costs $5,000 to get a banana to The Space Station, so capturing a dead satellite would always cost more than it's gold or platinum scrap value.
@@jeffmartin3406 Not if you're going at the same speed as the bullet
Ngl, at first I was thinking this was the worst camera work ever. Then I realized I was the cameraman. I’ve never seen this effect on RUclips before. Pretty fkn awesome!
Great Scott! Thank you Scott.
Wow, this was a cool video. It's interesting to visualize how many satellites are over our heads
I thought this was the most pointless video ever.
(Looking down at the iPad on my lap)
Then I discovered you could look up.
Brilliant.
I can't imagine trying to time a rocket launch to guarantee missing a collision with one of these.
Is it possible to clean it up by removing all stars/natural lighting? Then be able to see just the space junk, and then just the sats?
Did you just ask if it's possible to extinguish all the stars in the sky?
@@mismis3153 That's not at all what he asked.
@@mismis3153
no, simply...replace it
This was recommended to me by chance and I’m so glad this is absolutely fantastic and educational