Subj : Re: Active or dead?
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Nov 03 2016 14:56:00

-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Tracking satellites, are we? ;)

 ml> absolutely! caught 15 visually tonight... that's about average around
 ml> here but if we were able to shoot^H^H^H^H^Hturn out some lights, we'd
 ml> have a darker sky and likely catch maybe 10 more ;)

Cool.  I have a habit of being able to look up at a random time and see
satellites. :D  One night, I managed 3 immediately. :)

 TL> Yep, I do know what TLEs are, and have used them many times. :-)

 ml> my project was mainly designed to replace orbitel because of its
 ml> ancient DOS (and BASIC) limitations... especially considering that
 ml> orbitel could not create a full TLE list with all current satellites in
 ml> it...

I don't know Orbitel.  I've used Predict a little in recent years.


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