Whether the Satellite is a Naked-eye Satellite: whether the
brightest it can ever look reaches the Visible window's faintest
magnitude, the same number the Pass search judges brightness by, so a
Satellite the rule accepts is one the search can in fact open a window for.
A Satellite the field has published no Standard magnitude for has no
brightness to reach it with and is therefore not Naked-eye: the number is
never estimated. A stand-in lands where the guess puts it, and near the
line that is a coin toss: Landsat 9 at a stand-in of 4.7 would be 3.9
overhead, just bright enough.
The faintest apparent magnitude that
counts as seen, VISIBLE_FAINTEST_MAGNITUDE unless the caller sets
another, as they would the Pass search's for the same sky.
Whether the Satellite is a Naked-eye Satellite: whether the brightest it can ever look reaches the Visible window's faintest magnitude, the same number the Pass search judges brightness by, so a Satellite the rule accepts is one the search can in fact open a window for.
A Satellite the field has published no Standard magnitude for has no brightness to reach it with and is therefore not Naked-eye: the number is never estimated. A stand-in lands where the guess puts it, and near the line that is a coin toss: Landsat 9 at a stand-in of 4.7 would be 3.9 overhead, just bright enough.