Subject: HEAVENSAT Alex Laspin has done it again! If you thought his satellite tracking program HEAVENSAT was great wait until you have tried the latest version now available at http://www.heavensat at ru/english replace "at" with "." Version 201 now comes with even more bells and whilstles. A few of the improvements made are: (1) You have the choice of three star databases depending on how faint you want to go - the faintest goes to magnitude 12. (2) It can handle any number of satellites and is FAST. (3) It can predict IRIDIUM flares (4) It can predict transits of the sun and moon by satellites (5) It is possible to sort the prediction output in various formats, time, name, elevation etc (6) It provides three kinds of map displays- the SKY mode, CHART mode and satellite track projection on the earths surface (7) You can select what satellites you want using a Satellite filter- eg select on inclination, period ,eccentricity,apogee and perigee heights, magnitude etc (8) By selecting the ephemeris command you can generate detailed predictions for any satellite if you wish to. Its uses the latest SPACETRACK algorithms and is as accurate as they come. The program does not have a manual but its very easy to use and for my use I cant think of a better or more versatile program. Since its freeware why not ty it - you wont regret it. I use it for radio tracking as well as optical tracking. About the only thing it misses is the display of a satellites transmitting frequency as a result of doppler shift -but then I havent asked Alek's for this facility yet :-)) Aleks is very open to suggestions for improving his program. Well done Aleks- a superb program! Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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