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 -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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