It's not a problem, but a feature, well worth noting even for LEO's ! Even though an alt/az display is requested, I guess observers without an accurate alt/az telescope mount need the star track to find a good spot to acquire the satellite. Even during a LEO pass, the stars may rotate 2-3 degrees! And you may certainly need accurate star references to find a GEO. Should you wish to see the 'real' alt/az track, you select that on the F7/F7 menu ( Track coords: Horizon instead of Track coords: Equatorial) In Polar or Rectangular mode, the track is always Equatorial (=Siderial) /Björn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Fly" > when I tried to plot its location using SkyMap 6.6 (which I recently got to run > on my Windows XP system, after seeing some SeeSat-L posts a while back), it > showed it trucking right along, about like the HST. > > Does anybody know what the problem is (I noted that SkyMap doesn't explicitly > list the SGDP model, but only SGP4 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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