Folks,
How would one go about extracting a satellite's longitude and
latitude from the TLE's? I realize that this will be a function of time
but my question is restricted to geosats and, therefore, time as a
confounding variable should be immaterial. I realize that geosats
experience very small perturbations in their orbits but this is
something I can live with (for now).
I am interested in writing some software to basically parse a
geosat TLE file and produce a list of corresponding longitudes and
latitudes. I would like to produce results, if possible, accurate to
within one and, preferably, two decimal places.
I am setting the stage for a mini-project involving the
photography of geosat constellations and would like to be able to
generate the above-mentioned results at a whim's notice so as to plan my
photo sessions and photo composition/framing.
Anthony.
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