I composed VISUAL.TLE/VISIBLE.TLE to contain just such satellites.
The file was on Celestrak and Mike's sites. Unfortunately, I haven't been
able to update those files recently, but you may use them as a base for your
own list. Mike did update the list on his site.
mccants.tle was a much larger list containing interesting sats that were not
necessarily of naked eye brightness.
The visible list at Space-Track is far less accurate.
Mark wrote:
> Before Space-Track I used to get mccants.tle from Mike
> McCants' site every few days and print out a list of
> all sats brighter than mag 3.5 to observe them by eye.
>
> Now that Space-Track is here, I tried getting their
> "Visible Satellites" list and doing the same thing.
> In your experience with Space-Track, do you recommend
> that I use their "visible" list?
>
> Or shall I try the long "Full Satellite Catalog"? A
> big list may include sats for which different orbit
> models are appropriate, so that a prediction run with
> the SGP4 model may generate poor predictions for some
> sats.
>
> Or maybe Mike can publish a list of sats that used to
> go into mccants.tle, so that we can setup our own
> scripts to extract Mike's sats from the full list.
>
> Just inviting ideas.
>
> Mark
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