24 mm focal length in a full frame body means a horizontal angle of view of about 74°. To sum it up: it is expected that satellites not appearing in general photos taken from the ISS, and if a satellite is visible, it would be an extraordinary occurrence.Ī common lens focal length used by the crew of the ISS appears to be 24mm.
It would also be a tedious exercise, and pointless too.
To determine if a dot in a photo taken from the ISS is really a satellite, one needs to be familiar with the position of the stars.And most of the time, satellite will appear as a dot, indistinguishable from background stars. But it will be an extraordinary occurrence. We can’t rule out satellites appearing in photos taken from the ISS.Not to mention they actively steer the ISS to avoid collision. The probability of any satellite being within 5 km from the ISS at any random time is about 0.017%.Cubesats and space debris that practically have no hope of being visible from the ISS are included as well. All of the calculation done here includes everything. But it is safe to say there are not many satellites bigger than a school bus. Satellites come in different sizes. From small cubesats that fit in our palms, to the size of a football field.Wide angle means it is harder to recognize a distant object. General photography on the ISS is usually done using wide-angle lenses.Neither cars, buses and even football fields are visible on general pictures taken from the ISS. The ISS is about 400 km above the surface of the Earth.It is about the same distance from New York City to Boston. According to simulation, the average distance from the ISS to the nearest satellite is 304 km.700 km is more than the distance from New York City to Cleveland. The average distance to the closest satellite is about 700 km. In the LEO orbit, there is one satellite for every 175,000,000 km³ of volume of space.And satellites are not visible because they are too far spaced apart from each other. That’s a recurring question within the flat-Earth community, usually asked without expecting an answer, assuming that an answer is impossible, and that it is a glaring oversight when the powers that be purposefully made the picture using CGI.īut no, the pictures are real. “Why don’t we see satellites in photos taken from the ISS?” (or from space in general).
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