Since Space-Track went online my satellite observing has gone down to nearly zero. I use the program Orbitron which can not read the some of the Space-Track files (the most usefull ones to me). The only Space-Track file it can read is the "alldata" file which has no satellite names, just numbers which is useless. Orbitron can not read the Space-Track full satellite catalog file that includes the names of the satellites (the file extension for this file is called GZ file which even Windows XP can't open). I used to download the McCants file, load it into Orbitron and looked for the _names_ of satellites I had not seen. I then went to Heavens-Above and used it to see where on the sky I could see the satellite in relation to the brighter stars and then used my 20x90 binoculars to see the satellite. No more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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