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

From: Jim Nix (nixj@bellsouth.net)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 14:42:38 EST

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    Hi,
    
        Thanks for the replies!  Is OIG usually slow to update the elsets, 20040, yesterday's was 7 days old.
    
    Jim
    
    Bjoern Gimle wrote:
    
    > ...
    > > 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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