Hi Kevin, > Can someone check to see if I am going crazy. > Try the following geo sat as an example > > Galaxy 11 40.0 v > 1 26038U 99071A 02128.82175324 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 6463 > 2 26038 0.0783 74.4544 0006274 213.6969 143.1828 1.00268196 8808 SkyMap is not going to "read" that 40.0 as a visual magnitude since the line is not in the proper Molczan format. The standard visual magnitude must be preceded by the three satellite dimension values in meters. (Mind you, SkyMap doesn't do anything with those dimensions, but they still nevertheless need to be in there because SkyMap was written to be compatible with Ted's format.) Also, you should know that 40.0 is not a reasonable standard magnitude. If you do the math, that would correspond to an object about the size of a bacterium. The actual standard magnitude for an object like Galaxy 11 is probably in the 3 to 5 range -- Mike McCants would be able to tell you. If you just want to make sure that SkyMap doesn't filter out an object like Galaxy 11 that doesn't have a standard magnitude in the SATMAG.DAT file (or has a placeholder value of 99.9), just set the default standard magnitude to something like +3.0. Alternatively, you can change the nameline to something like: Galaxy 11 1.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 and make sure the lighting constraint toggle is set to read standard magnitudes from the ephemeris file. Cheers, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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