On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Russ Johnson wrote: > >>This thread has moved into topics that are FAR from visual satellite > >>observing. Am I alone in this? > > The shuttle is a high-interest satellite, and its missions (as well > as other SATELLITE subjects) are covered by NASA-TV. In that respect > NASA-TV is a useful tool, no less useful than any other tool such as Satspy > or Skymap. Are posts on these tools > off-topic? No. NASA-TV can be useful in visual satellite observation, and > is therefore germane to this list. Count the number of recent posts > concerning VISUAL OBSERVATIONS of the Shuttle, Hubble, and Chandra in > orbit and particularly Shuttle reentry. Many cited real-time information > provided by NASA-TV. No, I don't think these topics are FAR from > visual satellite observing, in fact they are quite relevant. I think NASA-TV is somewhat relevant to visual satellite observing, but not a whole lot (and as a tool I do not find it comparable to Skymap or SpySat, neither of which have seen such a long thread on SeeSat-L). I think it was fine for just a few messages, but now the discussion has become too long and technical. I would like to suggest to keep discussion of "which dish to use to receive NASA-TV" off the list in the future. If someone volunteered to compile the conclusion of this discussion and send it to either me or Jeff (jeff@satellite.eu.org), I'm sure we could find a place for it on the VSOHP Web pages. Cheers, Bart, SeeSat-L administrator. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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