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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by lmm on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @03:06AM (#26313000)
Just to add to this, when a satellite goes into the Earth's shadow it disappears like turning off a light, and vice versa for a satellite going in the other direction coming out of the Earth's shadow.
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Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization by bombcar on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:30AM (#26315065)
I suspect this is it - you can't "see" where the shadow is but satellites go in all sorts of directions - and your eyes see a light moving and then another moving another direction and assume they're the same thing.
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