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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