Terry Pundiak wrote: > Since I am a Mac user - and reforming fanatic - I use Orbitrack which > doesn't sort things at all... so I wrote a Hypercard program to sort out > the evening's satellites chronologically and strip unnecessary lines > like when they are in shadows - I now usually can get 4 columns on 3 > pages instead of the original 12. QUICKSAT does all that. Of course, it's for pc. It also can strip out tle's from > Molczen's file so I have been increasing my custom list as I go along. There are pc programs for that too. > I'd like to do more programing - add magnitude estimations for each line > of prediction. QUICKSAT does that too. > (so go ahead and tell me what I am already missing in the pc sat > software world - maybe I'll give in - I'm close) Since you mentioned it first, everything you want to do is available for pc. If you do get a pc, we'll even help you with everything you may want to do on it. Welcome to SeeSat. -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@surfnj.net Sky Views: http://njsurf.com/skyviews/ Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey