StarliteStella@aol.com wrote: > > Thanks again to all for fascinating and very enlightening info for the > novice--I too have a PDA--a Handspring Visor, 8 mb. Do you think your > "Pocket Universe" would work on mine? And how do I download a real accurate > GMT? This is so exciting--thanks again! Stella The Handspring Visor uses Palm OS, so programs for the Casio won't work on it. I don't know if there is a similar program for palm OS, i.e. to predict flares. I get by by using AvantGo (http://www.avantgo.com - free) to download the flare predictions from Heavens Above, and Pocket Sat (http://www.emmgraphics.com/pilot/pocketsatinfo.html - shareware) to plot the actual position of the satellite. Pocket Sat is quite useful. If you download the element sets, convert them to palm format using the supplied program you can predict the orbit of any low earth orbit satellite, and also predict which satellites are likely to be visible for any given time period. I keep time on my Palm using a program called sntp (http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/rees/pilot/ - postcardware). It gets the time from a time server and updates the system time, so I always have (to within a second or so) accurate time. Perhaps not quite accurate enough for timing obs, but good enough for predictions and observing. Best regards, Marc Bradshaw 37.028N 138.254E 75M AMSL ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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