Since I'm enjoying this list very much, here is my intro. I've been in amateur astronomy since high school, and I would occasionally see the odd satellite, but I never really got into elsets and predictions until another guy in our local astronomy club started posting Mir predictions at the meetings. About that time I ran across the program OrbiTrack from BEK developers on AOL, which gives you the observation times, altitudes, etc, along with a schedule of satellites for a particular night, real-time tracking, and some other interesting information. I decided to try predicting satellite passes myself. I wanted to test out the method 'privately', before I started putting my reputation on the line by telling 50 people about an upcoming pass. Well, the first time Mir came sailing overhead at magnitude 0 right on time, I was hooked. Now, I like to make up a nightly satellite schedule before any of our public observing events, and tell people when and where they're coming from and what their names are. I'm so glad I had the programs in place to see TSS. And now, I'm the guy posting the satellite passes at the astronomy club meetings, only now it's Mir and the Shuttle, when it's up. -- Scott Wilson Dept of Physics Univ of South Carolina Columbia, SC, USA President, Midlands Astronomy Club PGP Public Key on request, or finger @scuch8.psc.sc.edu