Tools
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| best_pass Find the best upcoming pass(es) over a location, ranked by the rating seeksat.com shows ("what's the best pass tonight?"). Give `satellite`… | Effect: Read | |
| find_passes List every upcoming pass of one satellite over a location in the next windowHours (default 48, up to 240), in time order. Each pass has ris… | Effect: Read | |
| get_pass_chart Render a polar sky chart (PNG) of a satellite's pass over a location: where to look, with the moon, planets and stars in their real positio… | Effect: Read | |
| get_pass_weather Cloud-cover forecast (Open-Meteo and MET Norway) and the chance of a clear view for a location at one time, such as a pass's peak. The fore… | Effect: Read | |
| get_position Where a satellite is now, or at a given time: the point on Earth straight below it (latDeg, lonDeg, not where it is in your sky), its altit… | Effect: Read | |
| get_radio_pass Radio details for one pass of a satellite over a location: its known downlink (and uplink) frequencies, the Doppler swing, when to tune to … | Effect: Read | |
| identify_satellite "What was that moving light?" Given where and when a light was seen, lists the satellites that were sunlit, above the horizon and within `t… | Effect: Read | |
| list_satellites List the popular satellites (ISS, Tiangong, Hubble and a few others) with each one's orbit data freshness. This is not the full list: every… | Effect: Read | |
| next_visible_pass Convenience shortcut: the next pass of one satellite from a location (looks windowHours ahead, default 72). Use this only when the user wan… | Effect: Read | |
| search_satellites Search the full satellite catalog (about 17,000 objects) by name, alias or NORAD number, best match first. Use it to turn a name like "SDO"… | Effect: Read | |
| whats_up_now What is in the sky over a location right now, from every satellite in the catalog (about 17,000, active satellites plus CelesTrak's visual … | Effect: Read |