Re: Osculating TLE for Near? and other issues
Bjoern Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:41:51 +0100
Leigh Palmer (leigh@sfu.ca) asked:
>two Macintosh applications ("Orbitrack" and "Starry Night"). Has
>anyone generated a set of osculating elements of perigee epoch for
>NEAR in TLE format so a rank amateur can make a clumsy attempt to
I don't think OrbiTrack can handle hyperbolic orbits (e > 1.0 ),
possibly Starry Night, but my friend dumped his Mac some time ago.
But I've read that there are at least four ways of running PC programs
on a Mac.
RJ's SkySat can handle e>1, and Mike's jan23.zip and Rob's
SkyMap 5.11 (6.1) can handled tabulated data ("Rocket trajectories")
I have sent a SkyMap plot for Malta until Sunrise on Jan.23 to
Mark Borg (markborg@orbit.net.mt)
Unfortunately for Europe, it will still be over 30000 km over the Earth
at 06:13 UT, and too far South on the next appearance.
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