And even tho you tell it to up date with the latest list, it still is missing a lot. And there is no way to manually enter a set of 2 line elements. Or at least I have not figured out a way. Joe Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 6/15/2013 12:20 PM, wkitty42@gmail.com wrote: > On 6/13/2013 15:56, Joe wrote: >> Recomendations of other softwares? > *facepalm* heavensat was one of them... i was thinking that heavensat was an > online web based tool :embarrassed: > > stellarium is another one but stellarium is primarily an astronomy program that > has had satellite tracking added in later... the current release is ok for > things like this but it doesn't remove satellites from the list that are not in > the TLE files any longer... it converts the selected TLEs to a JSON file... the > next release is reported to automatically remove missing satellites from the > JSON file... i have been quietly and unobtrusively trying to get them to forego > conversion of the TLEs to their JSON format and just use them directly as every > other satellite tracking program does... the size of the JSON is much larger > then the raw TLEs... this is especially important when loading TLE files with > 10000+ satellite entries... they can use their JSON file to store the radio > frequencies and other notations and keep them synced by norad number if they > want but they really do need to just use the TLEs directly... i don't know why > they ever converted the TLEs to JSON in the first place... other than it is a > neat new technology :? [/digression] > > there are a few older DOS style ones that i used to use which i can't find on my > system right now :/ but it has been a long while since i used them and i may be > misremembering their capabilities... i think one was written by mike mccants but > i'm not sure... i'm recalling a round visual port with the star field and the > track of the satellite plotted across it... it was using one of the older DOS > graphics modes to draw in... uncle google might be able to point them out... > >>> NOTE: fixed quoting flow... >>> >>> On 6/13/2013 13:17, Joe wrote: >>>> On 6/13/2013 11:33 AM, wkitty42@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> On 6/13/2013 10:01, Joe wrote: >>>>>> Is there a way to adjust the speed at when you tell it to move timewise. >>>>>> to make it change rates? >>>>> do you mean like instead of updating every 5 seconds, it updates every 1 second? >>>> I mean like with this bird going past Saturn thing, >>>> >>>> If I wanted to try to see any others go by something else. >>> ahhh... ok... >>> >>>> Say Saturn again, I set it up so the time is shortly after dusk, I >>>> center Saturn in the field of view with it still rather wide say 10 degrees. >>>> >>>> Then hit the button to make it start moving timewise. >>>> >>>> Right now it is either perfectly times 1 second of time passed in the >>>> program and 1 second of real time. or it is very close to 1 to 1 if is >>>> is not. >>> right... >>> >>>> What i want to do is to speed it up, like 10 times or something, so I >>>> can sit and see if anything may pass close again, without having to >>>> watch for hours. >>> ok, yeah, you want simulated time... as someone else already mentioned, i think >>> the only way currently is to stop time and then use the slider to advance it... >>> then you are not limited to how long you have to watch but how much you move the >>> slider... something like that, anyway... >>> >>> personally, this is one of the reasons why i have several satellite tracking >>> programs that offer astronomical views of the sky... i can speed up time if i >>> like or i can simply advance it at my pace... some are better than others and >>> the ones with primary sky viewing are not as good for satellite watching but >>> they are getting better... slowly but better :) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130615/b55bd05b/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CLEAN-IDLE-TYME-LOGO-100-50.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7055 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130615/b55bd05b/attachment.jpg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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