Re: Superbird A for Thursday night, Nov. 1st

From: Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 03:29:05 EST

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    ...
    > two hours but no joy. Is there a favoured time for flashes to occur,
    > a required geometry between the sun,sat and the observer?
    ...
    As I indicated in http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Nov-2001/0002.html
    there IS a required geometry, which depends on where the spin axis is
    pointing, and how the solar panels are oriented relative to the axis.
    As far as I know, there is no favoured direction (but the panels are often
    about 90 degrees from the axis)
    
    > Bjoern, how did you obtain that beautiful star chart with sat tracks? Is
    > it very difficult to do? The orbit program which I use at present gives a
    ...
    Rob Matson's SkyMap. Technically very easy to make one chart - just run the
    program and indicate name of a ConTroL file. Normally don't edit the ctl
    file - there is a menu system for setting location, time, map projection and
    centre, star and star name magnitude limit, TLE file, satellite
    magnitude -elevation -range -perigee limits...
    or which objects you want.
    
    http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/skymap64/index.html
    
    (The asteroid, hip* and tycho* files are optional, depending on your desire
    for faint objects)
    
    -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office)                         --
    -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home)  http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle --
    -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA,    59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m         --
    -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m         --
    
    
    
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