Hello Patrick, The book _A Tapestry Of Orbits_ by King-Hele is mostly about his carreer as a satellite observer and researcher and not so much on the orbital mechanics. Indeed _Observing Earth Satellites_ is an exellent book. It clearly describes the whole mathematical background of orbits and gives graphical solutions. Of course now a computer can do this much faster. I remember the late seventies when it took several houres to calculate sat passes for just a handfull of sats, and the clouds moved in. Or it suddenly clears and you don't have any predictions. It's a pity the book is out of print. There is a book by Jean Meeus with all kind of orbital formula's in it. It is however rather directly and just jumpes from one formula to the next. I don't know a title and if it is still in print. Greetings Leo ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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