I have Mr Orbit also and pluged in this years elements and it works. Hmmmmm, I'll double check and let you know for sure. Yep, it works. I can email you a working copy if you like. Jim (1980'seditor of Amateur Satellite Observer used a Timex 1000) ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Darwin Teague <dishhead@iquest.net> To: seesat-l@blackadder.lmsal.com <seesat-l@blackadder.lmsal.com> Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Y2K >I use an old dos program - Mr. Orbit for my satellite predictions. I ran >the numbers for Mir and ISS using elements from the last few days of 1999 >and did the predictions for January of 2000 (it was still 1999 when I did >this). > >I was curious what would happen after the element dates rolled over. > >I ran it today, asked for the predictions - the program assumed this was >January,1980. Needless to say, it didn't work. I decided try something. I >changed the first numeral of the date from a 0 to an 8, thereby making the >date 1980. Ran it again and the results matched up very well with the ones >I ran with the '99 elements. Some were off by 1 degree in altitude >(differences in postion of moon?), but good enough for me. The times >matched up as did the azimuth,the direction, and most of the altitudes. I'm >happy! > >Friday I'll be able to see if the results I got were accurate. > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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