http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/PassGenerator will send you advance emails when a satellite is predicted to pass over. I currently use it for the ISS & Hubble; however, you can select up to 10 satellites. http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html provides a way of determining (particularly) what geostationary satellites may be visible from your location. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html provides a means of tracking several "more famous" satellites, including the ISS and Hubble- a "SkyTrack" graphic display option is available. In fact, you could track any satellite using this site, but entering the tracking data for each satellite that's not in the list would be painful. Also see: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/SSOP_Help/SSOP_Help.html http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles/geo.zip gives the information that SkyMap and similar programs will need to compute the location of such geostationary satellites. Related files may be found at: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles and http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements If you want your information straight from the horse's mouth, you can sign up at: http://oig1.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/foxweb.exe/app01? (include the final '?') http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/SSOP_Help/tle_def.html defines the format of the "Two Line Elements." I recently got SkyMap 6.6 running on my Windows XP system. If I have a bit of time... I may document the relatively simple steps required to do so. I used SkyMap to generate some graphics related to the lunar transit recently observed by Ed Morana: edmor@pacbell.net/ISSTransits">http://www.geocities.com/edmor@pacbell.net/ISSTransits Linked on that same page, Ed also shows a screen capture from "SkyMapPro" (which is altogether a different program from Rob Matson's SkyMap, though evidently they have similar functionality). Another program (plugging the product of a fellow alumnus :-) you might look at is Bill Gray's "Guide 8": http://www.projectpluto.com (I intend to myself, "real soon now.") ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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