On 21 Mar 2008, at 02:57, <djmullen@tds.net> <djmullen@tds.net> wrote: > I'm looking for software for meteor/satellite parties where a dozen > or so people spend a night at a dark site during the Perseid meteor > shower and watch meteors and any satellites that come by. Can > TheSky be set up to display the sky currently overhead along with > the positions of any visible satellites going over? I'd have no > problem editing the element file so only the brighter sats are in > the sets. Yes. First load the TLEs and then set the date and time and it shows you where the sats are. Just for fun a few minutes ago I loaded TLEs for the geosynchronous sats and now the screen is full of targets and I'm just moving to one to anther and to another and taking pictures along the way. Fun. Waiting for the terminator to rise and start catching the early morning sats in another hour or so. patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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