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LIVE · NOTHING HERE IS A RECORDING

THE SKYRIGHT NOW

Everything below is happening while you read it — the station crossing the terminator, the planets that are actually above your horizon, two probes still coasting on 1977 momentum. The observatory is just a window. This is what’s outside.

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Sun
Moon
Observer
COMMAND READOUT
one glance before the instruments

Tonight'sSignal

A compressed status of the sky before the full console opens: horizon, moonlight, low orbit, near-Earth debris, and the dishes currently listening past Mars.

Sky state
CALIBRATING
Planets up
Nearest rock
SCANNING
DSN locks
LISTENING
active up/downlinks
Observer
LOCATING
TIMEZONE FALLBACK
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OVERHEAD

THE DOME · YOUR SKY, LIVE

LOCATING…
NNEESESSWWNW
CALIBRATING THE DOME…
NIGHT · 0 planets up

east is on the left — you’re looking up, not down.

VISIBLE PLANETS

LOCATING…

COMPUTING EPHEMERIS…

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LOW ORBIT

ISS · LIVE TRACK

acquiring
ACQUIRING…

DEEP SPACE NETWORK

who's calling home
LISTENING…
↓ downlink   ↑ uplink   ↕ both

three dishes, 120° apart, so Earth never loses the thread.

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DEEP SPACE

THE VOYAGERS

still transmitting
EARTH1 AUMARS1.5 AUJUPITER5.2 AUSATURN9.6 AUURANUS19.2 AUNEPTUNE30.1 AUPLUTO39.5 AUTERMINATION SHOCK94 AUHELIOPAUSE121 AUVoyager 2 · 137.0 AU from the SunV2137.0 AUVoyager 1 · 164.5 AU from the SunV1164.5 AUINTERSTELLAR SPACE →
Voyager 1
Distance24,608,849,730 km164.5 AU
Light delay22.8 h22:48 one-way
Speed17.1 km/s
MissionDAY 17,28447.3 yrs
Km travelled since you arrived0 km
Voyager 2
Distance20,494,908,286 km137 AU
Light delay19 h19:00 one-way
Speed15.4 km/s
MissionDAY 17,30047.4 yrs
Km travelled since you arrived0 km
23 W · still calling home

the most distant human-made objects. coasting on 1977 momentum and pure stubbornness. the ladder is logarithmic — linear would need a screen four metres wide.

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THE ROCKS

THE GAUNTLET · NEAR-EARTH TODAY

0 tracked
SCANNING…
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THE IMAGE

PICTURE OF THE DAY

DEVELOPING…

THE WIRING

no recordings
THE DOME · PLANETS · MOONcomputed in your browser · keplerian + truncated ELP · ±1°
ISSwheretheiss.at · polled every 5 s · forecast every 5 min
DEEP SPACE NETWORKeyes.nasa.gov/dsn · polled every 20 s
ASTEROIDSNASA NeoWs · refreshed hourly
PICTURE OF THE DAYNASA APOD · daily
VOYAGERSlinear coast from JPL reference states

an observatory you can view-source.

SOURCES · WHERETHEISS.AT · NASA APOD / NEOWS · DEEP SPACE NETWORK NOW · KEPLERIAN EPHEMERIDES (±1°) · NATURAL EARTH COASTLINES