Re: Create a TLE from az,el data

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:33:33 +0200

>  It's an old question. But I'd like to know how to create
>  a TLE of a satellite by it's az,el and time data.


To my knowledge, all the *old* programs (elcor, pelcor, firstorb,
fitelem...) found in the VSO Home Pages (orbsoft, tletools...)
use RA/DEC.

IOD, by George D. Lewis, uses the ObsEntry/IOD format with several
variants of az/el and RA/Dec, but I have only used ObsEntry yet.


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