Re: A beginners first impressions of Satflare.com

From: Pierros Papadeas (pierros@papadeas.gr)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2012 - 09:04:32 UTC

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    On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:14 AM, joseph daniel <station969@hotmail.com> wrote:
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    >  Hi :
    >
    >  Finally got some rain and installed Google Chrome and found a website that instructed in
    > simple detail how to activate the HTML5's OpenGL engine so that I could try out Satflare's
    > online sat tracker .   http://tinyurl.com/26orlg7  (turns out my Opera 11.60 has the WebGL
    > but it was also not activated by default) .
    >
    >
    >  Wow ! This is exactly what I've been hoping for . So simple to use it's wild .
    >
    >  For example , saw a flare , back home in Satflare I easily set the clock for that recorded
    > time , dbl clicked in the exact part of the sky I noted , set the search radius for 3 degrees
    > and BINGO !
    >
    >  Satflare gave me 2 choices ... one that was really moving quickly and the other one , which
    > didn't even appear to be moving , which is exactly what the flare I saw was behaving like .
    >
    >  Perfect . Can't imagine it being any simpler , plus it was a classified that Heavens
    > Above said simply was not there that evening (but the evenings before and also after) .
    >
    >  It also has the option of exporting a link to send someone so that they can visually see
    > the results of a possible sighting hit .   http://tinyurl.com/c7bu62l  (I think you must beregistered to be able to click on an exported link to view it) .
    >
    >  I'm guessing that maybe there are other apps with more bells&whistles perhaps but for me
    > this seems to do the job , and Chrome is also very fast and simple .
    
    Thanks for the heads up :)
    
    Fwiw, Mozilla Firefox (latest version) works perfectly fine,
    out-of-the-box on satflare.com.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Pierros
    
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    > Cheers Simone ,FPAS to follow ,
    > gc
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