> there one available? And what satellite program can handle plotting > something that faint? Thank you very much for any and all your help. > Bob, Bill Gray has an elset in TLE format of it on the site you referred to. > However I would suggest you calculate an ephemeris for your location > using the HORIZONS system at JPL. ( http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html ) ... > CCD imaging. After getting your ephemeris I would suggest plotting on charts > made using something like Guide or Skymap Pro charting /planetarium programs > rather than a satellite tracking program. Guide plots satellites but Bill Gray > put a lower limit of .05 revs/day on mean motion, so it will center on the location SkyMap by Rob Matson has constraints on magnitude, elevation, culmination, perigee and range (not MM). Magnitude limit can be set to 50! You can edit HORIZONS' latitude, longitude, range (above Earth's surface) into a "rocket trajectory" (.trj) file to avoid plotting manually, and produce many plots in different scale/center/coordinate grid/time tag spacing. Example: 0 37.871 19.449 444440.000 60 37.688 19.424 444444.190 75 37.625 19.387 444477.811 90 37.621 19.347 444517.001 120 37.614 19.271 444689.050 1st column is seconds from time chosen as mapping time, 2nd is lat, 3rd is long E, 4th. in km. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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