How it works
Everything here is computed in your browser from public data. No account, no tracking of the place you look up.
Short answers
Can a satellite see me? Not in these pictures. The sharpest public image here is 10 metres per pixel: a car is one pixel, a person is invisible. Commercial cameras reach about 30 cm, still not enough to recognise anyone.
Is it live? The positions are. Pictures reach the public archives hours to a couple of days after they are taken.
Is this every satellite? No. Classified satellites are not in the public catalogue, and companies do not publish where they aim.
Finding the passes
Every tracked object has public orbital elements, published by CelesTrak from US Space Force tracking. We run each camera-carrying satellite through SGP4, the standard orbit model, for the last seven days and the next 24 hours, and note each time your place was within its reach. Forecast passes drift by a few seconds per day, which is fine for this.
What the four groups mean
Photographed: the real picture from that pass is in a public archive (Sentinel-2, Landsat, Sentinel-1 radar, or NASA's daily MODIS and VIIRS mosaics). We show the actual image, cropped around your place.
Probably photographed: a fixed, always-on camera swept over in daylight, but its pictures are not published per place.
Could have aimed here: a steerable camera or radar was close enough to lean over. Only the operator knows whether it did.
Just passed over: in your sky, but dark for a normal camera, or a space station.
Limits you should know
Camera reach is modelled from published swath widths and typical tilt limits, so counts in the "could" group are an upper bound, not a record. Local times use the place's own time zone.
Sources
Orbits: CelesTrak GP data. Imagery: Copernicus Sentinel data and USGS Landsat via Microsoft Planetary Computer; NASA GIBS (Blue Marble, Black Marble, MODIS, VIIRS, GOES). Places: Open-Meteo geocoding, BigDataCloud. We did not take any of these pictures.