>
> Have you tried SatSpy? It makes it very easy. You just load an elset,
> and click on a button to display a list of the night's
> passes. On my 500Mhz processor it takes about eight seconds
> to find three hours of passes from mccants.tle.
> Right, I usually go to heavens-above for a quick look, but SatSpy is
> great for dimmer satellites like the NOSS triplets, for zooming
> in on the skytrace and see exactly what time and where in the sky to look.
> I don't know if other programs can do this... Skymap maybe?
Yes, SkyMap can also produce a list. It can be filtered on magnitude,
min and max range, perigee height, culmination elevation, and min el.
listed.
Then you can move and zoom the plot to find a good search spot.
I can usually find areas with 5-10 satellites for an evening, so I don't
need to print one map per pass, and don't have to bring the pc out.
Start of Track Peak Elevation End of Track
Date Time Azim Elev Time Azim Elev Time Azim Elev VMag Cat #
Satellite Name
-------- -------- --- --- -------- --- --- -------- --- --- ---- ----- -----
---------
0/ 5/28 0:43:15 145 4 0:50:55 73 42 0:59:47 359 0 7.3 00893 Trans
5B4 Rk
0/ 5/28 0:40:59 287 0 0:50:55 227 23 0:57:03 181 10 6.5 25872
Globalstar 26
0/ 5/28 0:44:49 347 0 0:50:57 293 15 0:57:04 238 0 7.6 24967
Iridium 36
0/ 5/28 0:46:08 240 0 0:51:02 285 8 0:56:01 330 0 6.8 26331
99057HQ
0/ 5/28 0:43:25 19 0 0:51:04 298 62 0:57:08 217 6 8.0 04611
Nimbus 4 Rk Db
0/ 5/28 0:46:14 270 0 0:51:11 319 9 0:56:09 9 0 7.7 19574
Cosmos 1975 Rk
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