Ted wrote: >I observed the following points: > >24680 96 072A 2701 G 20020731021657230 17 25 2001558+083058 28 S .... When I started reading SeeSat-L, I had no idea what messages like that meant. They hurt my eyes to look at them. Well, it's a positional measurement. For more information on this topic, on the Visual Satellite Observers Home Page, see these items (which are linked there): http://www.satobs.org/ >Observing ... > ... > Satellite positions. > Why measure positions? > Preparation. > Making actual measurements. Also see this part of the SeeSat-L FAQ: http://home.att.net/~sue.worden/SeeSat-FAQ/Chapter-07.txt The SeeSat-L FAQ sites are here: http://home.att.net/~sue.worden/SeeSat-FAQ/ (HTML) http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/faq/ (ASCII - plain text) Another type of highly numerical message is a report of a tumbling satellite in the Photometric Periods of Artificial Satellites (PPAS) format. That's discussed in the FAQ chapter above, beginning at 7.2.3, and on the SeeSat-L home page under "Observing ... Flashing Satellites", and a specific description of the format is here: http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppasformat.txt (Europe) http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/bwgs/ppasfmt.html (USA) By the way, the PPAS database is up to version 10 now. If you want information on flashing satellites, you can get a copy of the database here: http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppas10.zip (Europe) http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/bwgs/ppas10.zip (USA) Okay, that's my last message for this morning -- I promise! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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