For those cloudy nights .. A new version of the ISS Simulator program is now available on my website at http://freespace.virgin.net/philip.masding/ISSSim.htm For anyone not familiar with the program, it was mentioned in the Sky and Telescope article Shooting the Space Station with Video in the December 2002 edition. It will create a Virtual Reality animation of an ISS pass from anywhere in the world and show you the precise appearance of the ISS through a telescope including all the stages of construction from 2001 onwards to the last mission 12A. In this latest version Mike Tyrrell has extensively improved the GUI and the new features include New screen layout allowing VRML and settings form to be viewed together Time is now entered as Local not UTC (remember to set your timezone!) Ability to load and save all settings (inc TLEs) to an XML file Automatic load of saved default settings Automatic detection of working directory Addition of S1 truss model option A model of Envisat which allows simulations of that satellite as well Mike and I would like to thank Tom Gwilym for beta testing this code for us. Hopefully this should mean there will be no problems running the program under different regional settings. Happy Viewing Philip Masding ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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