Say Princess Leia was fleeing across Earth at the same altitude as she was above Tatooine (and in the same spaceship, to stop any facecious answers) and the Star Destroyer was chasing her in the same way.
If they were over my house would I be able to see them? How big would they look? By day? Night?
Just as a hunch, I would think you would be able to see it, but only at night.
You can see the International Space Station during the night and I would assume the Star Destroyer to be bigger and it was completely white so it would reflect most of the sunlight that hit it.
Would probably just look like a bright star, possibly moving depending on how high up it was.
Of course that depends on the size, not having technical schematics on hand, I couldn’t tell you for sure.
I am not a star wars expert but…
A super Star Destroyer is apparently 12km long- you could definitely see that in daylight in Low Earth Orbit, and probably in Geostationary Earth Orbit as well-
sizes from here
http://www.merzo.net/index.html
other smaller Star destroyers are about a klick long, but would still be visible in daylight in LEO; but they would be more difficult to see in GEO.
Basically anything brighter than Venus will be visible in daylight;
this includes the reflections off the solar panels of real-life Iridium satellites, which are easily visible if you are looking in the right diirection.
SF worldbuilding at
http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html
Yep, you would. And here’s proof.
Okay. What, exactly, is in that picture?
Very nice Guanolad - is that your work? If so well done.
I would think it’s either a deleted scene from Episode II or a spoiler from Episode III.
From the outline, adam yax, I would say that that is a Super Star Destroyer in that picture.
So, some skillz with PhotoShop is now a valid cite? If some asks how does sound travel in outer space will a .wav of a TIE fighter fly-by be a solid cite?
Guanolad, yes that is nice work, but it certainly can’t be proof. Unless you have actually built and launched a Super Star Destroyer, in which case I bow down before you.
Anyone else hearing a ‘whoosh’, here?
yes, if the question was ’ Would I be able to hear the whoosh of a TIE fighter in outer space? ’
Well, using an 8km length (Super Star Destroyers have varying lengths), the angular size calculation found here, and the space shuttle orbit (500km, from here)…
We get .916 degrees (in the sky). This site claims the sun and the moon are each 1/2 degree so the Super Star Destroyer in a space shuttle orbit would be twice the size of the sun.
I don’t work with these numbers very often so it’s entirely possible I’m wrong.
Sorry, if I’m raining on any parades, but I am a little on edge here. Yesterday I chewed out for posting a factually wrong answer in this forum. It wasn’t my intention to mislead anybody, I was just sloppy and posted without checking my facts. So, when I take that into account with the flustercluck the “Are scalar weapons real” thread has become, I may have over reacted in my desire to see this thread be answers to factual questions.
Plus, the OP asked about seeing it from earth. So, if you can prove that the planet in Guanolads link has the same atmosphere make up as earth, I will again apologize 
Well, in that case, you would not be able to see it…
Because it’s fictional.
Depends. How low is it flying?
I must say that is one hell of a website.
The guy must have no life, but, WOW!
Ben & J. Lo?
That image is from a Star Wars fanfilm that I worked on called Broken Allegiance. I cannot claim responsibility for that image, however, it was composited by somebody else.
That picture comes from fanfilms, as Guano pointed out. Its a joke, ok, well, sort of.
