<p>Here is something that I wrote for my personal purposes.</p>

<p>Fetches iridium flare details based on your heavens-above credentials and displays a notification in Ubuntu. </p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/astronomersiva/satellite-passes-notifier" rel="nofollow">Github</a></p>

<p>I had one for ISS passes as well. Will find it and push it to the repo soon.</p>

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2016-03-10T13:34:49.040Z
It is promising but at this moment it has some problems (I opened PRs for some and issues for other - see https://github.com/astronomersiva/satellite-passes-notifier/pulse)
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are you planning to address mentioned issues (see https://github.com/astronomersiva/satellite-passes-notifier/issues)? Especially lack of license, as it strongly discourages from making improvements - I would not be able to fully use my own improvements.
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siva
<p>I am trying to find application that would be capable of notifying me about 
<a href="http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/" rel="nofollow">visible ISS pases</a> for specified location and/or <a href="http://heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx" rel="nofollow">visible Iridium flares</a> for specified location.</p>

<p>This software must be capable of running on Ubuntu.</p>

<p>I strongly prefer active open-source projects.</p>

<p>I know that there are multiple mobile apps but I want something that may run on Linux PC.</p>

<p>To avoid "this is subjective" - I will be happy about any software fulfilling this requirements and criteria are not subjective.</p>

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2016-03-08T13:15:39.310Z
Comment only as I don't have any precise information - there is "ISS Above" which is Linux. It's Raspberry Pi-specific software I believe, but if you can get the source code it might be worth having a look at.
Andy
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2016-03-08T14:29:50.517Z
@Andy - it seems to be 148$ for software on Raspberry Pi http://www.issabove.com/what-is-it/ or source-code only for 30$ http://issabove.com/downloads/iss-above-hd-for-pi-2/
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Ah that's a pity (I thought it was open source). I just noticed the Space Exploration stackexchange has a few questions about sat tracking (though at least some are for Windows). For example: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2355/satellite-tracking-software
Andy
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Notifier about visible ISS passes and/or Iridium flares for Ubuntu PC
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# Notifier about visible ISS passes and/or Iridium flares for Ubuntu PC

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-08)

I am trying to find application that would be capable of notifying me about
[visible ISS pases](http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/) for specified location and/or [visible Iridium flares](http://heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx) for specified location.

This software must be capable of running on Ubuntu.

I strongly prefer active open-source projects.

I know that there are multiple mobile apps but I want something that may run on Linux PC.

To avoid "this is subjective" - I will be happy about any software fulfilling this requirements and criteria are not subjective.

**Tags:** software, artificial-satellite

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Comment only as I don't have any precise information - there is "ISS Above" which is Linux. It's Raspberry Pi-specific software I believe, but if you can get the source code it might be worth having a look at.  
> **username_0**: @username_1 - it seems to be 148$ for software on Raspberry Pi http://www.issabove.com/what-is-it/ or source-code only for 30$ http://issabove.com/downloads/iss-above-hd-for-pi-2/  
> **username_1**: Ah that's a pity (I thought it was open source). I just noticed the Space Exploration stackexchange has a few questions about sat tracking (though at least some are for Windows). For example: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2355/satellite-tracking-software  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-03-08. Score: 1

Here is something that I wrote for my personal purposes.

Fetches iridium flare details based on your heavens-above credentials and displays a notification in Ubuntu.

[Github](https://github.com/astronomerusername_2/satellite-passes-notifier)

I had one for ISS passes as well. Will find it and push it to the repo soon.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: It is promising but at this moment it has some problems (I opened PRs for some and issues for other - see https://github.com/astronomerusername_2/satellite-passes-notifier/pulse)  
> **username_0**: are you planning to address mentioned issues (see https://github.com/astronomerusername_2/satellite-passes-notifier/issues)? Especially lack of license, as it strongly discourages from making improvements - I would not be able to fully use my own improvements.  

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