Hello All, I have been experimenting with Skymap 6.5 which I have just downloaded. I tried plotting the locations of all the satellites in "geo.tle" at a given time with a wide FOV. I expected to see a sort of "gaussian cloud" along the equator with the density tapering away north and south. What you get is acutally two distinct belts. One is quite well defined, and lies 3 deg. south of the equator. The other is rather fuzzy, 5 deg. north of the equator with a slight inclination. I am wondering why the geo objects tend to split into these two belts -- ideas, anyone? Last night I patrolled the celestial equator around Procyon (where Skymap tells me I could find Gorizont 19) but saw no flashes. Praveen Ahmedabad, India 23.03N 72.546E ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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