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color lines of the satellites

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Why do some satellite orbits have colors and other do not have? Some are blue with orbit lines, some green with orbit lines and some are white with orbit lines and some white ones have no orbit lines?

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#1

From the blog of the author of the plug-in:
"Satellites in the new database has been color coded - purple for Iridium, grey for naked-eye-visible objects (white for the the ISS), green for scientific Earth observation missions, blue for the NOAA weather satellites, and brown for Amateur satellites."

There's a page about the Satellites plug-in in the Stellarium Wiki, but it's badly out of date:
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Satellites_plugin

I don't know why he has posted the information on his blog and not on the wiki.

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