Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:
> How would one go about extracting a satellite's longitude and
> latitude from the TLE's?
I used to use MrOrbit. That has a function giving lat/long.
> 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.
Unless you just want the exercise, software already exists.
> 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.
As mentioned before, you don't need lat/long. You do want azimuth/
elevation. The best way to do that is use a prediction program
like HIGHFLY. You may then make predictions at a moment's notice.
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Jay Respler
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