Mick West

I might have to start adding Qianfan – the Chinese version of Starlink. Amateur astronomers have shown that the first satellites of the Chinese Qianfan ("Thousand Sails") constellation are bright enough to be seen naked-eye. Launch of the...

Checking the weather the evening of Sept 7 approx 11pm ... the witness says it was total cloud cover, but the historic weather sites seem to suggest broken low cloud that would allow Starlink flares to be visible if the break was distant to the...

Recently fixed! After setting the date, under "File" click on "Update Starlink TLE for Date."

Dang, it seems like I neglected to upload the configuration file. It works now!

Thought this worth preserving in this thread... happened across it today while looking for something else.

You can't be messed up for TEN MINUTES, man, we're watching ALL THE TIME!!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek:

It's fixed now, it was just messed up for about ten minutes

The new XenForo had built-in dark mode, so I enabled that ... and it broke everything.

Sure, but you could have a high school nerd check it. It's available and verifiable, is the point.

BB codes are actually kind of old-fashioned. The techniques used on boards like this predate social media.

There are all manner of fun things in the BB codes page (which you can get to via the "How To" menu at the top, or the "Help" link at the bottom https://www.metabunk.org/help/bb-codes/

You could do linked footnotes manually with the ANCHOR tag [1] You create the anchor in the text next to the footnote, then use it as an option in another anchor tag to make a link (with optional SUP) MICK1 1 - The footnote You can also use...

It would be great to hear from these neighbors! Over time, more orbs appeared in our home. Not too frequently: a whole month might go by, and then one would arrive. Since "our" orbs manifested as clear or green, I did not feel compelled to warn...

Something to consider here is that a surprising amount of people have reported such experiences. Source 2,240 votes, and 18.2%, or 407 people, report seeing something like this in their own home. I suggested some possible explanations in an...

I've added the option of displaying the tracks in the look view It seems like things like the object display and custom camera position are not saving correctly in the Starlink tool. That's using the old method of saving everything to a URL...