Mark wrote: > Or maybe Mike can publish a list of sats that used > to go into mccants.tle, so that we can setup our own > scripts to extract Mike's sats from the full list. Mike has written a couple of new programs, xf6 and xf7, to help with this. They are listed at the top of this page: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/index.html I'm using xf7 with mccants.tle, eccen.tle, leo.tle, and geo.tle when applicable. His visual.tle file could be used also. You do have to get the big data file from Space-Track, and it is the input file you use with xf6 or xf7 to update the file(s) that you want. If you didn't keep an old visual.tle file, I'm sure that someone can send you one from the days before Space-Track. I haven't looked at the OIG/Space-Track visible file in years, but it is probably not up-to-date. (By the way, adding new objects to the existing files will need to be done as they go into orbit.) There are objects that get as bright as +3.5 at least occasionally that are not in the visual.tle file, so you might consider using the mccants.tle file as your "master" file. Mike has some recent old ones on his site: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/oldelsets/index.html Mike also has written up an automated method to get files using "wget". These are mentioned right near the top of his home page: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/ Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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