Now I am a very happy camper
Thanks to some help from the tech guy (Brian Edwards) of satellite tool kit
( STK) , I can now find out where the iss will be seen going across the sun
and now moon.
After a little trouble, I got the program to work.
Using this orbital element for the iss
ISS (ZARYA)
1 25544U 98067A 02220.15028755 .00019974 00000-0 27256-3 0 243
2 25544 51.6373 152.1096 0017960 115.9072 15.9712 15.57306576212138
And using the sun, since rob's program, doesn't work with the moon.
Here is the sample output of rob's program
0:00:00 5.9892 -156.8802
0:01:00 9.2198 -154.4966
0:02:00 12.4249 -152.0488
0:03:00 15.5981 -149.5159
0:04:00 18.7320 -146.8749
0:05:00 21.8182 -144.1000
0:06:00 24.8466 -141.1620
0:07:00 27.8055 -138.0276
0:08:00 30.6803 -134.6577
0:09:00 33.4533 -131.0061
0:10:00 36.1024 -127.0174
0:11:00 38.5990 -122.6227
0:12:00 40.9055 -117.7334
0:13:00 42.9691 -112.2259
0:14:00 44.7079 -105.9022
0:15:00 45.9681 -98.3572
0:16:00 46.2770 -88.1942
Here is a sample of the output from stk.
Time (UTCG) Latitude (deg) Longitude (deg) Range (km)
---------------------- -------------- ---------------
----------------
8 Aug 2002 00:00:00.00 5.989 -156.880
151692028.103236
8 Aug 2002 00:01:00.00 9.220 -154.496
151692063.966535
8 Aug 2002 00:02:00.00 12.425 -152.048
151692130.945359
8 Aug 2002 00:03:00.00 15.598 -149.515
151692228.846748
8 Aug 2002 00:04:00.00 18.732 -146.874
151692357.419360
8 Aug 2002 00:05:00.00 21.818 -144.099
151692516.382989
8 Aug 2002 00:06:00.00 24.847 -141.161
151692705.447013
8 Aug 2002 00:07:00.00 27.806 -138.027
151692924.373272
8 Aug 2002 00:08:00.00 30.680 -134.657
151693173.046867
8 Aug 2002 00:09:00.00 33.453 -131.005
151693451.578891
8 Aug 2002 00:10:00.00 36.103 -127.016
151693760.524330
8 Aug 2002 00:11:00.00 38.599 -122.621
151694101.210890
8 Aug 2002 00:12:00.00 40.906 -117.732
151694476.425917
8 Aug 2002 00:13:00.00 42.969 -112.224
151694891.820631
8 Aug 2002 00:14:00.00 44.708 -105.900
151695359.545266
8 Aug 2002 00:15:00.00 45.968 -98.355
151695909.972110
8 Aug 2002 00:16:00.00 46.277 -88.193
151696659.367453
There results match, with just very slightly different answers. But that to
be expected, due to the ways the calculate and output the data.
So now I will no longer need to bug rob, that should make rob very happy. I
tested the results using project pluto's guide 8.0, so I know it works:)
Thanks
Kevin
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